South Africa-1969: Waterbuck Grazing in a Green Field

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

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Waterbuck Grazing in a Green Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a waterbuck grazing in a lush green field in South Africa. The animal, with its dark brown coat and distinctive white rump patch, moves slowly across the frame, its head lowered to feed. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, natural film grain, and a slightly faded color palette. The scene is viewed through a dark frame, suggesting it was filmed from a vehicle or shelter, adding to the authentic, personal feel of the archival footage. This clip offers a rare glimpse of African wildlife in a natural setting, perfect for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic projects.

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: 127579010

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 home-movie footage for productions needing a brief archival cutaway of a waterbuck grazing in open grassland.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, soft focus, gate edges and dark foreground framing may show a late-1960s visitor-filmed wildlife scene rather than a staged nature-film setup.
Home-movie behavior: The animal is observed quietly from a sheltered or vehicle-like viewpoint, giving the clip an unstaged traveler’s record of wildlife at feeding distance.
What appears in frame: A brown antelope-like waterbuck, white rump patch, short horns, green field, dark vertical frame edges, soft background grass and close foreground body movement are visible.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, muted green-brown color, soft registration, slight blur and dark frame intrusion that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife insert, travel-memory beat, safari transition or quiet cutaway within material about South Africa or 1960s amateur filming.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a grazing waterbuck in a green South African field without identifying a reserve, town or specific conservation setting from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, logos or music are indicated, but users should still verify copyright status and any location or wildlife-use requirements for their project.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1969 South Africa 8mm wildlife, waterbuck grazing home movie, vintage safari animal footage and 1960s African grassland cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other South Africa 1969 wildlife material, then broader 1960s home-movie animal or safari sequences.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 South Africa 8mm frame showing a waterbuck moving across green grass, partly bordered by dark foreground edges. — A waterbuck walks slowly through a green field, seen through dark vertical framing.

The waterbuck continues across the field in side profile.

1969 South Africa 8mm frame showing a waterbuck grazing with its head down in green grass, with dark foreground framing nearby. — The waterbuck lowers its head and feeds in the grass.

1969 South Africa 8mm frame with a close, partial waterbuck body and head grazing near the foreground, softened by motion and film grain. — A closer partial view catches the waterbuck grazing near the camera’s foreground.

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