Kenya-1969: Young Elephant in Clearing

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationKenya
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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Young Elephant in Clearing — Clip Details

KENYA-1969: A young elephant stands in a sun-dappled clearing, its reddish-brown skin contrasting with the lush green foliage. The 8mm film captures the animal in a natural setting, with dappled sunlight filtering through the trees. The footage shows the elephant from multiple angles, including a close-up of it holding a branch in its trunk and a wider shot of it standing alone on a grassy slope. The grainy texture and color saturation are characteristic of vintage Super 8 home movie footage from the late 1960s, offering a nostalgic glimpse into African wildlife.

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: 127567893

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Late-1960s Kenya 8mm wildlife footage suited to documentary, museum, education, or editorial requests needing a brief baby elephant safari cutaway.
Period detail: The frames show color 8mm safari footage with late-1960s home-movie grain, soft focus, and handheld framing, while no landmarks or dated objects are visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor-shot feel, observing a young elephant from a distance and then briefly nearer through the camera's limited home-movie reach.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a young reddish-brown elephant, green grass, dense shrubs, tree shade, a pale branch held near the trunk, and dark frame edges.
Film character: The scan has saturated 8mm color, visible grain, soft detail, flicker, and uneven handheld composition that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife insert, safari memory beat, animal cutaway, or transition within a Kenya travel or conservation sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually documents tourist-era wildlife observation in Kenya without showing people, vehicles, signage, or built infrastructure in these frames.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location access, and wildlife-use context should still be reviewed by the buyer.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 Kenya 8mm baby elephant footage, vintage safari wildlife, young elephant in clearing, and African home-movie animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Kenya safari shots, then other 1969 Kenya wildlife clips, then broader vintage elephant or East African travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Kenya 1969 8mm footage, a young reddish-brown elephant stands close in leafy cover with a branch near its trunk. — Young elephant seen close among dense green vegetation, its trunk near a leafy branch.

A young elephant stands alone on a sunlit grassy slope in Kenya, framed by shrubs and tree shade in 1969 8mm footage. — Wide view of the young elephant standing alone in a grassy, shrub-lined clearing.

The young elephant faces the camera from a distance on a green slope, surrounded by brush in the Kenya 1969 home-movie shot. — Distant young elephant facing the camera on a sunlit slope with brush around the clearing.

A young elephant remains alone in the grassy clearing, with shrubs, reddish soil, and deep shade visible in the 1969 Kenya 8mm frame. — Young elephant standing still in the clearing with shrubs and patches of reddish soil behind it.

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