South Africa-1969: Zebras and Antelopes Grazing in the Savanna

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

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Zebras and Antelopes Grazing in the Savanna — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a serene African savanna. A zebra grazes peacefully in a lush green field, accompanied by two white egrets, while other zebras roam in the distance. The scene shifts to a group of antelopes standing on a dirt path under a dramatic, cloudy sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a natural, unscripted feel, offering authentic archival wildlife footage from South Africa.

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: 127577839

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

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: 1960s South Africa 8mm wildlife footage suited to documentary inserts, education sequences, or archival cutaways of grazing animals in open savanna.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-century tourist or home-movie safari view, with zebras, egrets, antelopes, open grassland, and visible 8mm contact-frame borders.
Home-movie behavior: The framing feels observational and unstaged, holding on animals grazing and standing rather than arranging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a zebra grazing in green grass, white egrets nearby, distant animals across the field, antelopes on a dirt track, and a cloudy sky.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, slight color shift, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet edge shadows that signal original physical film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, or transition between broader South Africa travel or nature sequences.
Historical context: The scenes place large grazing animals in an open savanna setting, reflecting a visitor-shot wildlife encounter without supporting a specific reserve or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still verify copyright status and any location or wildlife-use requirements for their project.
Research search match: Useful matches include 1969 South Africa 8mm wildlife, vintage home movie zebra grazing, savanna antelope footage, and archival safari animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other South Africa 1969 material, then related vintage wildlife, safari, grassland, or grazing-animal footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 South Africa 8mm frame showing a zebra grazing in open grassland with white egrets and distant wildlife beyond. — A zebra grazes in a green savanna field while white egrets stand nearby.

1969 South Africa home-movie frame of a zebra feeding in grass with egrets nearby and faint animals in the distance. — A grazing zebra stands beside white birds in open grassland.

1969 South Africa 8mm frame showing a zebra lowered to graze, with white egrets standing in the grass nearby. — The zebra continues grazing as white egrets stand across the field.

1969 South Africa 8mm frame with antelopes on a dirt track in open savanna under a blue-gray cloudy sky. — Antelopes gather on a dirt path under a broad, cloudy sky.

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