South Africa-1969: Antelope Grazing In Open Field

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

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Antelope Grazing In Open Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a large antelope grazing in a lush green field in South Africa. The animal, likely an eland, stands calmly with its head lowered, feeding on the grass under overcast daylight. The footage shows natural film grain and a slightly soft focus, with dark vertical borders suggesting it was filmed through a window or viewfinder. The open savanna stretches into the distance, with a pale horizon line visible behind the grazing animal. This authentic archival clip offers a peaceful moment of wildlife in its natural habitat, ideal for documentaries, nature projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 127578937

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s South Africa wildlife home-movie footage for documentary cutaways, natural-history context, or archival atmosphere around antelope behavior.
Period detail: The frames show an 8mm home-movie view with soft focus, film grain, and contact-sheet borders, while the 1969 date is supported by supplied metadata rather than visible signage.
Home-movie behavior: The animal is observed quietly while grazing, giving the clip the unstaged feel of a traveler or home-movie camera lingering on wildlife.
What appears in frame: A horned antelope, green grass, open field, pale horizon, overcast daylight, soft focus, and dark film borders are visible across the frames.
Film character: The clip carries a physical 8mm texture with visible grain, muted color, slight softness, and gate or contact-sheet borders that reinforce its archival origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm wildlife insert, a transition into South African landscape material, or a reflective nature cutaway.
Historical context: The footage may show mid-century travel or amateur wildlife filming in South Africa, with the emphasis on a single grazing antelope in open country.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but animal identification appears likely rather than certain and copyright clearance must be handled separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1969 South Africa 8mm antelope grazing, vintage home movie wildlife, eland in open field, and archival African grassland footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with South Africa 1969 material, and then with broader vintage wildlife or grazing-animal scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 South Africa 8mm frame of a likely eland or large antelope grazing in grass under overcast daylight. — A horned antelope lowers its head to graze in an open green field.

A likely eland or large antelope grazes in a South African field, seen in soft 8mm archival color. — The antelope remains side-on while feeding in the grass.

The antelope keeps its head low while grazing, with open grassland and a pale horizon behind it. — A quiet grazing moment shows the animal partly lowered into the foreground grass.

A large horned antelope grazes calmly in a green field in the supplied 1969 South Africa home-movie clip. — The animal continues grazing as the open field stretches behind it.

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