Kenya-1969: Herd Of Black Wildebeests Stand In Green Field Looking At Camera

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Herd Of Black Wildebeests Stand In Green Field Looking... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a herd of black wildebeests in a grassy field in Kenya. The animals stand alert, some turning to face the camera with their curved horns clearly visible. The footage shows natural movement across a green landscape under daylight, with the characteristic grain and soft focus of Super 8 film. The dark silhouettes of the wildebeests contrast against the muted green field, offering a nostalgic glimpse of African wildlife from the late 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127566924

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1969 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Kenya Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1969 Kenya 8mm wildlife clip supports archival requests for East African animal observation, safari travel context, or documentary cutaways from the late 1960s.
Period detail: The visible period clues are mainly the 8mm color home-movie texture, soft focus, and contact with open wildlife habitat rather than any dated clothing, vehicles, signage, or landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds on the herd from a visitor or traveler viewpoint, preserving an unstaged moment as the animals face, graze, and shift in the field.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include several dark wildebeests, curved horns, green grass, a low earthen strip, soft daylight, handheld framing, and dark film gate borders.
Film character: The footage has muted 8mm color, visible grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and handheld steadiness that read as original home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife insert, safari-travel cutaway, quiet transition, or observational memory beat within a Kenya or African wildlife sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents tourist or amateur filming of wildlife in Kenya in 1969 without showing people, infrastructure, or identifiable protected-area markers.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but wildlife location and copyright status should still be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Kenya 8mm wildlife footage, wildebeest herd in green field, vintage safari home movie, and East African animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other Kenya 1969 material, and then with broader vintage safari, East African wildlife, or grazing herd scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1969 Kenya 8mm footage, several wildebeests stand alert in a muted green field, with curved horns visible in soft focus. — Wildebeests stand spaced across a grassy field, some facing the camera.

A central wildebeest faces the camera in a green Kenyan field, with other animals partly visible near the frame edges. — A lone central wildebeest faces forward while others remain partly in view.

Several wildebeests occupy a green field in soft 8mm focus, with one animal lowering its head as others stand nearby. — The herd shifts position, with one wildebeest lowering its head toward the grass.

Three wildebeests are visible in the grassy Kenyan landscape, including one with its head lowered and another turned side-on. — Three wildebeests gather in the field, with one grazing and another turned sideways.

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