Kenya-1980: Feathered Drummers Leaping Across a Hotel Lawn Past a White Building

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Year1980
Decade1980s
LocationKenya
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1980 · Kenya
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

cultural performance
tourism
safari holiday
music and dance
hotel entertainment
East Africa travel

Shot type: wide
Camera: pan · handheld
Setting: outdoor · sloping hotel lawn with a white two-storey building and dense trees
Time and weather: day · overcast
Lighting: flat overcast daylight
People: 10 · About eight male performers in feathered headdresses and patterned costumes carrying long painted drums, plus a few onlookers on a balcony.
Objects: long cylindrical drums · feathered headdresses · patterned costumes · white building · twin chimneys · balcony railing · awning
Colors: deep green · white · violet-blue · red
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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A line of feathered drummers leaps across the lawn against dark trees.
The camera pans and a white building with chimneys enters the frame.
The troupe passes below the building as onlookers watch from the balcony.
A single performer bounds across the grass in the foreground.

Feathered Drummers Leaping Across a Hotel Lawn Past a... — Clip Details

Central Kenya, circa 1980, home movie footage of a troupe of costumed performers on a sloping hotel lawn. About eight men in feathered headdresses and patterned costumes run and leap in a loose line, each carrying a long cylindrical drum painted with red and blue triangles. The handheld camera pans with them past a white two-storey building with twin chimneys, where onlookers watch from a balcony. Overcast light, a purple-blue colour cast and motion blur mark the Super 8 projection transfer.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Handheld
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800002384

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People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1980 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: Kenya 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: Helps a brief for circa 1980 East African tourism, showing a costumed drum troupe performing for hotel guests in Central Kenya for documentary or education use.
Period detail: The Super 8 colour cast, the white hotel building and the staged troupe may show the safari-holiday entertainment of around 1980.
Home-movie behavior: Shot by a visitor on the lawn, the camera chases the fast-moving dancers and catches the show the way a guest saw it, not as a planned production.
What appears in frame: Feathered performers in patterned costumes, long cylindrical drums painted with red and blue triangles, a sloping green lawn, a white building with twin chimneys and a balcony of onlookers.
Film character: Handheld Super 8 with visible grain, a purple-blue colour cast, flat overcast exposure and strong motion blur that conveys the speed of the dance.
Edit role: Works as an energetic cutaway or memory beat in a travel sequence, or as a transition from landscape footage into human activity.
Historical context: Cultural performances on hotel and lodge grounds were a familiar part of the visitor experience on Kenyan safari routes in this period.
Research note: Copyright in the film is separate from the likeness of the performers and onlookers, who are unidentified; the hotel building and costume designs may need property or cultural-sensitivity review before commercial use.
Research search match: Kenya drummers for tourists, Super 8 safari home movie circa 1980, feathered dancers hotel lawn, East Africa cultural show footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's waterfall viewpoint, safari minibuses and Mount Kenya Safari Club equator sign clips, then other Central Kenya travel footage of the period, then other cultural dance performances.

Still Frames From This Clip

Costumed drummers with red and blue painted drums leap across a hotel lawn in Central Kenya, circa 1980, on Super 8 — A troupe of feathered drummers runs across the lawn in a tight line.
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Feathered performers pass a white hotel building with twin chimneys in Central Kenya, circa 1980, in a Super 8 home movie — The performers spread out as the hotel building comes into view.
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Hotel guests watch from a balcony as a costumed drum troupe crosses the lawn, Central Kenya, circa 1980 — Onlookers at the balcony railing watch the drummers pass below.
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A lone performer with a painted drum bounds across a hotel lawn in Central Kenya, circa 1980, motion-blurred on Super 8 — One drummer leaps across the foreground at the end of the shot.
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