South Africa-1969: A Brown Antelope In The Middle Of The Big Green Field And The

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

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A Brown Antelope In The Middle Of The Big Green Field... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a large antelope with long, spiraled horns standing in a vast green field under a cloudy sky. The animal, likely an eland, is seen in profile, calmly surveying its surroundings in the African savanna. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly soft focus, with the frame bordered by the dark edges of a projector or screen. The scene conveys a quiet, observational moment of wildlife in its natural habitat, evoking a sense of nostalgia and archival authenticity.

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: 127578845

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 wildlife footage for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing a brief antelope cutaway from original 8mm home-movie material.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly the 8mm color stock, soft focus, contact-frame edges, and 1969 metadata rather than identifiable buildings, vehicles, or dated human activity.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor-shot quality, observing a horned antelope standing and grazing at a distance without narration, posing, or controlled wildlife staging.
What appears in frame: A brown horned antelope, green open field, cloudy pale sky, low horizon, dark film-frame borders, soft grass texture, and mild handheld framing are visible.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, muted color shifts, slight softness, exposure variation, and dark scan borders that mark it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, quiet transition, or brief observational beat within a South Africa or African savanna sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually documents a mid-century home-movie encounter with large wildlife in an open South African landscape, without enough detail to identify a reserve or exact setting.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but species identification and location should be checked separately from copyright and collection licensing.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 South Africa 8mm wildlife, vintage antelope in field, home movie African savanna, and horned antelope archival footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1969 South Africa material, then broader vintage wildlife or African landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

A horned antelope stands still in the open grass with a cloudy horizon behind it.

1969 South Africa 8mm frame of a brown antelope with long horns standing side-on in a broad green field. — The antelope remains side-on in the field, framed by soft 8mm color and dark scan edges.

A quiet profile view holds on the antelope in the grassy landscape.

1969 South Africa 8mm frame with the antelope partly cropped as it lowers its head to graze in the field. — The animal lowers its head toward the grass, with part of its body cropped by the frame.

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