Kenya-1969: Young Elephant in Grassy Field

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationKenya
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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Young Elephant in Grassy Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a young elephant standing in a grassy field in Kenya. The elephant, with its reddish-brown skin, stands calmly in the sunlit clearing, surrounded by green vegetation and patches of reddish soil. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and natural shadows, offering a nostalgic glimpse of wildlife in its natural habitat. The camera remains steady, focusing on the young animal as it shifts slightly, creating a serene and authentic moment from a bygone era.

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: 127568105

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: 1969 Kenya 8mm wildlife footage suited to documentary, museum, education, or editorial requests for a calm young elephant in a natural field setting.
Period detail: The visible period clues are mainly the 8mm home-movie texture, warm color, soft focus, and metadata-supported 1969 Kenya setting rather than identifiable landmarks or dated objects.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged traveler or home-movie viewpoint, holding on the elephant from a distance as it stands quietly and shifts slightly in the clearing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a young elephant, grassy open ground, reddish soil patches, low vegetation, tree shadows, and dark film-frame borders from the contact sheet.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm grain, warm color cast, mild exposure variation, and a steady observational camera that add archival texture to the wildlife moment.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, transitional memory beat, or quiet insert establishing African safari travel and animal observation in the late 1960s.
Historical context: The frames show a young elephant in open vegetation in Kenya, offering visual context for mid-century personal travel footage without making claims about a specific park or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, source ownership, location permissions, and wildlife-use context should still be reviewed before publication.
Research search match: Likely researcher matches include 1969 Kenya 8mm elephant footage, vintage home movie African wildlife, young elephant in field, and mid-century safari travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Kenya 1969 travel or wildlife clips, then broader vintage elephant and African nature home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

Young elephant in a grassy Kenya field in 1969 home-movie footage, seen at a distance with reddish soil and tree shadows around it. — A young elephant stands in an open grassy clearing with reddish soil visible behind it.

Young elephant in 1969 Kenya footage stands in a sunlit clearing, with green ground cover, reddish earth, and shaded vegetation behind it. — The elephant remains near the center of the frame in a sunlit patch of grass.

Young elephant stands calmly in a grassy Kenyan clearing, framed by soft 8mm grain, background brush, and bands of shadow. — The elephant stands almost motionless as shadows cross the field behind it.

Young elephant remains in the clearing in 1969 Kenya home-movie footage, surrounded by grass, reddish soil patches, and dark contact-sheet borders. — The final sampled frame holds on the elephant in the same open field setting.

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