South Africa-1969: Giraffe Walking Through Green Field On A Sunny Day

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Giraffe Walking Through Green Field On A Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a giraffe walking through a sunlit green field in South Africa. The animal moves gracefully across the grassy clearing, framed by dense trees and a forested hillside under a bright sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, with a view through a dark frame suggesting a window or vehicle perspective. The natural setting and calm movement evoke a sense of 1960s wildlife observation and archival nostalgia.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127580701

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: Useful for requests needing 1960s South Africa wildlife footage, especially documentary inserts, archive cutaways, museum media, or nature-history context.
Period detail: The 8mm home-movie framing, saturated color, soft focus, and 1969 metadata support a late-1960s amateur wildlife observation context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged visitor-shot wildlife view, filmed from behind a dark window or vehicle frame as the giraffe moves across a clearing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a giraffe, green grass, shrubs, dense trees, a wooded hillside, bright sky, and dark framing bars around the view.
Film character: The footage carries a physical 8mm look with visible grain, soft exposure shifts, saturated greens, and slight handheld or in-camera instability.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife insert, travel-memory beat, nature cutaway, or transition within a sequence about South Africa or 1960s tourism.
Historical context: The scene shows a mid-century amateur encounter with African wildlife in a natural clearing, without visible people, signage, buildings, or modern infrastructure.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright, location context, and any wildlife or archive-use requirements.
Research search match: Matches searches such as 1969 South Africa 8mm giraffe footage, vintage home movie wildlife, giraffe walking in field, and safari-style archival cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with footage from the same reel, then other 1969 South Africa material, then broader vintage wildlife, safari, or giraffe observation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 South Africa 8mm frame showing a giraffe partly at left in a green field, seen through dark window-like framing. — A giraffe stands partly cropped at the edge of a sunlit clearing.

1969 South Africa 8mm view of a green wildlife clearing and wooded hillside, with the giraffe mostly outside the frame. — The camera view holds on the open clearing as the giraffe moves out of sight.

1969 South Africa 8mm frame of a giraffe walking across a grassy clearing, with shrubs and a wooded slope behind it. — A giraffe crosses the open grass below the wooded hillside.

1969 South Africa 8mm frame showing a giraffe walking rightward through a sunlit field beside shrubs and dense trees. — The giraffe continues walking across the clearing toward the right side of frame.

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