Kenya-1969: Three Elephants Walking In Green Grass On A Sunny Day

$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.

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

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Three Elephants Walking In Green Grass On A Sunny Day — Clip Details

KENYA-1969: Three elephants walk through a sun-drenched grassy clearing surrounded by dense green trees. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures a young elephant in the foreground and two others moving in the background, their reddish-brown skin contrasting with the vibrant green landscape. The natural, unsteady camera movement and film grain give the clip an authentic vintage home movie feel, with bright sunlight casting distinct shadows on the ground. This archival footage offers a rare glimpse of wildlife in a natural Kenyan habitat during 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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127568022

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: 1960s Kenya wildlife footage for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing archival views of elephants in a grassy natural setting.
Period detail: The 8mm color image, handheld framing, and home-movie exposure shifts support a late-1960s travel-film feel, with no visible landmarks to narrow the location beyond Kenya metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the elephants from a visitor or traveler vantage point, holding on their slow movement rather than staging a formal wildlife shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include three elephants, green grass, dense trees and shrubs, bright sun, dark shadows, reddish soil, and a soft black film-frame edge.
Film character: The clip has visible film grain, gate edges, slight blur, handheld movement, and one overexposed frame that read as physical 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, or transitional beat between broader Kenya landscape or safari material.
Historical context: The footage shows elephants moving through open grass near dense vegetation, giving visual context for traveler-recorded wildlife viewing in Kenya in 1969.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, source ownership, wildlife context, and location claims still require normal clearance review.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1969 Kenya elephants, 8mm safari footage, vintage wildlife home movie, elephants in grass, and East Africa travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Kenya 1969 footage, then broader 1960s wildlife, safari, grassland, or elephant material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing three elephants in sunlit grass, with one closer to camera and two farther back near trees. — Three elephants move through a green clearing under bright sun.

Overexposed 1969 Kenya 8mm frame where elephants and surrounding vegetation are only faintly visible through bright sunlight. — Bright exposure partially washes out the elephants and grassy setting.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame with a young-looking elephant in the foreground and two elephants farther back near dense green shrubs. — A nearer elephant faces the camera while two others remain farther back.

1969 Kenya 8mm frame showing one elephant closest to camera and two others behind it in a green, tree-lined clearing. — The elephants remain spaced across the clearing as the camera holds from a distance.

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