South Africa-1969: Black Rhino Grazing in Green Pasture

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

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Black Rhino Grazing in Green Pasture — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a black rhinoceros standing in a lush green pasture in South Africa. The rhino, with its distinctive double horns and thick grey hide, grazes calmly in the open savanna, its head lowered as it feeds. A smaller, lighter-colored animal lies partially visible behind it. The scene unfolds under a soft, overcast sky, with distant trees and rolling hills forming a serene backdrop. The footage exhibits the characteristic grain and color palette of 8mm home movies from the era, offering a nostalgic glimpse of African wildlife.

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: 127578334

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: Supports 1960s wildlife or South Africa archive requests needing brief 8mm home-movie footage of a black rhinoceros grazing in open grassland.
Period detail: The visible 8mm color, soft focus, and handheld framing support a late-1960s home-movie travel record, with no visible landmarks to narrow the South African location.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a quiet visitor-shot perspective, holding on the rhino from a distance as it grazes without staging or presenter activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a black rhinoceros with two horns, green pasture, a pale animal partly behind it, distant trees, low hills, and dark contact-sheet film borders.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, mild softness, uneven exposure, and muted color that read as physical home-movie texture from the period.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, or transitional beat within a sequence about African fauna or home-movie tourism.
Historical context: The scene documents a tourist or amateur view of rhinoceros in open habitat, but the frames do not identify a reserve, park, or conservation program.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but species identification, location specificity, copyright, and any location permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 South Africa 8mm rhino footage, black rhinoceros grazing home movie, and vintage African wildlife pasture shot.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with South Africa 1969 travel material, then with vintage wildlife, savanna, or rhinoceros archive clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 South Africa 8mm frame showing a black rhinoceros grazing in green pasture with distant trees and hills behind it. — A black rhinoceros stands in a green pasture, with a lighter animal partly obscured behind its body.

The rhinoceros remains in profile in the pasture, framed by soft distant trees and hills.

1969 South Africa home-movie frame showing a black rhinoceros grazing in tall green grass, with a pale animal partly behind it. — The rhino lowers its head into the grass while a pale animal remains partly visible behind it.

1969 South Africa 8mm frame of a black rhinoceros feeding in green pasture, seen through soft vintage film grain. — The rhinoceros feeds with its head lowered, surrounded by open grassland and distant hills.

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