Kenya-1969: Two Elephants In Savanna, One Standing, One Walking Through Ditch

$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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Two Elephants In Savanna, One Standing, One Walking... — Clip Details

KENYA-1969: Two elephants roam a sun-drenched savanna, their reddish-brown hides contrasting with the lush green grass and dense forest backdrop. One elephant stands calmly in the foreground, while the other walks through a shallow ditch in the mid-ground, its trunk raised. Shot on 8mm film, the footage displays natural grain, warm color saturation, and a slightly soft focus, capturing a candid moment of wildlife in their natural habitat. The scene evokes a sense of peaceful observation from a vintage home movie perspective.

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: 127568010

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports requests for 1960s Kenya wildlife footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing elephants in open grassland.
Period detail: The 8mm home-movie frame may show late-1960s safari observation, with no visible vehicles, buildings, signs, or landmarks to narrow the setting beyond Kenya metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a traveler filming wildlife from a fixed viewing position as the elephants move naturally through the landscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two elephants, green grass, a shallow reddish ditch, dense shrubs, a darker tree line, sunlight, and soft shadows.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, warm color, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and contact-frame edges that read as physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, safari memory beat, transition into African landscape context, or brief observational insert.
Historical context: The scene documents elephants in a natural-looking Kenyan landscape from a visitor perspective without making claims about a specific reserve or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review source copyright, location permissions, and wildlife-use context for their project.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1969 Kenya 8mm elephants, vintage safari home movie, African wildlife grassland, and elephants walking near ditch.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Kenya 1969 wildlife footage, then broader vintage safari or African savanna animal material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing one elephant in the foreground and another near a shallow ditch amid green savanna vegetation. — Two elephants stand apart in sunlit grassland with dense vegetation behind them.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame with a foreground elephant facing forward and a second elephant partly turned near a reddish ditch. — One elephant faces the camera as another stands near vegetation across the ditch.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing a closer elephant in soft focus and a second elephant beyond a shallow ditch in green terrain. — The nearer elephant stands low in the frame as the other remains by the brush line.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame with one elephant in the foreground and another near a shallow ditch against dense green vegetation. — Two elephants remain visible in the grassland, separated by the shallow ditch.

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