South Africa-1969: Wildebeest and Zebras Grazing in Savanna

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationSouth Africa
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 South Africa

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Wildebeest and Zebras Grazing in Savanna — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a wide savanna landscape in South Africa. Herds of wildebeest graze across the green plains under a pale blue sky, with zebras visible in the distance. The footage, viewed through a dark frame, shows natural movement as animals walk and feed, conveying a sense of peaceful wildlife observation. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering authentic archival footage of African wildlife from the late 1960s.

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: 127577207

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: South Africa 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: 1969 South Africa wildlife home-movie footage suited to documentary inserts, educational programs, or archive research on grazing animals in a savanna setting.
Period detail: The 8mm frame, saturated color, soft focus, and handheld viewing position support a late-1960s home-movie character, while no modern structures or signage are visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor-observation perspective, with the camera holding on grazing wildebeest and distant zebras rather than arranging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include wildebeest grazing in green grassland, zebras farther back, a pale blue sky, low horizon, dark film-frame edges, and scattered white birds or light objects.
Film character: The footage shows visible 8mm grain, soft exposure, saturated greens and blues, gate shadowing, and slight handheld instability that mark it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife cutaway, location-establishing insert, transition between travel scenes, or quiet observational beat.
Historical context: The scene documents a tourist or amateur-film view of South African plains wildlife in 1969 without showing people, vehicles, buildings, or identifiable institutions.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still confirm copyright status and any location or wildlife-use requirements for their project.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1969 South Africa 8mm wildlife, vintage home movie wildebeest grazing, zebras on savanna archival footage, and African plains home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel wildlife shots, then with South Africa 1969 travel footage, and then with broader vintage African savanna or grazing-animal material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 South Africa 8mm frame showing wildebeest grazing in green savanna grass with distant zebras under a pale blue sky. — Wildebeest graze in the foreground while zebras and other animals stand across the open grassland.

1969 South Africa home-movie frame with a wildebeest crossing the foreground and zebras grazing farther back on the savanna. — A wildebeest moves through the foreground as other animals graze across the open plain.

1969 South Africa 8mm still with wildebeest partly at the frame edge and zebras grazing in the middle distance. — The camera holds a wide view of grazing wildlife, with a wildebeest partly cropped at the left edge.

1969 South Africa 8mm frame showing a wildebeest near the right edge, with zebras and other animals grazing across green savanna. — A wildebeest stands near the right frame edge while zebras continue grazing farther out on the plain.

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