Kenya-1969: A Young African Elephant Walking Across a Grass Field

$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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A Young African Elephant Walking Across a Grass Field — Clip Details

KENYA-1969: A young African elephant walks across a grassy field, its reddish-brown skin glistening in the sunlight. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the animal moving steadily through a natural landscape with green bushes in the background. The grainy texture and warm color palette of the vintage home movie evoke a sense of nostalgia and archival authenticity. The elephant’s trunk sways as it walks, offering a rare glimpse into wildlife from the late 1960s. This authentic 8mm home movie footage is ideal for documentaries, historical content, and nature-themed projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127567781

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: Supports requests for 1960s Kenya wildlife footage, especially documentary inserts needing a young African elephant in an archival home-movie context.
Period detail: The 8mm color, soft focus, and handheld framing may show late-1960s tourist or safari filming rather than staged wildlife cinematography.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a fixed visitor viewpoint as the elephant walks past, giving the clip an unstaged travel-film quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a young elephant, reddish-brown skin, grass underfoot, green bushes, hard sunlight, deep shadows, and dark contact-sheet borders.
Film character: The footage has warm 8mm color, visible grain, slight softness, and uneven exposure that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory beat, or brief transition within a sequence about Kenya, safari travel, or elephants.
Historical context: The clip visually places wildlife viewing in a 1960s home-movie record without proving a specific reserve, route, or filming circumstance.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still confirm copyright licensing and any wildlife-location sensitivities for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1969 Kenya 8mm elephant, vintage safari home movie, young African elephant walking, and 1960s wildlife footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Kenya 1969 wildlife material, then broader vintage safari or elephant behavior footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Young African elephant in Kenya, filmed on 8mm, walking left to right across a grassy field with green bushes behind. — A young elephant walks across a sunlit grassy area bordered by vegetation.

The elephant continues in profile with its trunk hanging down as it crosses the field.

Young elephant in archival 8mm footage, partly turned while walking across grass near dense green vegetation in Kenya. — A handheld frame catches the elephant mid-stride near the edge of the bushes.

Young African elephant near dense bushes, trunk lowered as it moves through a grassy field in 1969 Kenya home-movie footage. — The elephant passes close to the vegetation, its trunk lowered and body partly softened by motion.

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