Kenya-1979: Zoom In on Two Maasai Men in Shukas Beside an Acacia Tree

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Year1979
Decade1970s
LocationKenya
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1979 · Kenya
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

Maasai culture
traditional dress
East African tourism
village life
pastoralist community
travel home movies
portraiture

Shot type: medium
Camera: zoom · handheld
Setting: outdoor · Dry savanna village ground with an acacia tree, fence posts and distant mountains
Time and weather: midday · dry season · partly cloudy
Lighting: hard natural daylight
People: 5 · Two Maasai men in the foreground wearing shukas, one checked red-and-white and one plain salmon red, with stretched earlobes and earrings; other villagers in red cloth at left and a seated person in the background early in the shot.
Animals: donkey
Vehicles: bicycle
Objects: planted spears · shukas · earrings · wooden fence posts · acacia tree
Colors: red · ochre · lilac blue · olive green
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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Wide view of two men by planted spears, with villagers in red at left and an acacia behind.
The camera zooms in and the figures at left drop out of frame.
Profile two-shot of the men in checked and plain red shukas, a donkey behind them.
The zoom settles on the pair in profile against blue mountains.

Zoom In on Two Maasai Men in Shukas Beside an Acacia Tree — Clip Details

Kenya, circa 1979, home movie footage of a visit to a Maasai village. The shot opens wide on two men standing by spears planted upright near an acacia, with other villagers in red cloth at left and a figure seated under the tree. The camera zooms in to a profile two-shot of the pair, one in a red-and-white checked shuka and one in plain salmon red, with stretched earlobes and earrings, against blue mountains, a dark ridge and a grey donkey. It is handheld Super 8 with warm, slightly faded colour.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 800002464

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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: 1979 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: Serves requests for late 1970s amateur footage of Maasai people and tourist village visits in Kenya, for documentaries, education pieces and travel history segments.
Period detail: The faded warm Super 8 colour and the safari reel context point to the late 1970s, though nothing in the frame itself carries a date.
Home-movie behavior: A tourist's unrehearsed zoom on two men who look off-camera gives the visitor's own view of a village stop rather than a posed portrait.
What appears in frame: Two men in checked and plain red shukas, earrings in stretched earlobes, spears planted in the ground, an acacia tree, a grey donkey, a bicycle and blue mountains under clouds.
Film character: Fine Super 8 grain, warm reds, a lilac cast on the distant hills and a slightly uneven handheld zoom give the shot its home-movie texture.
Edit role: Works as a portrait insert or cutaway in a safari or Kenya sequence, and the settled profile frame makes a clean memory beat.
Historical context: Visits to Maasai villages were a common part of Kenyan safari tours, and this shot shows such a visit from the tourist's camera.
Research note: Copyright in the film sits with the archive, but the men's faces are identifiable and no consent record exists, so use them respectfully and do not name them or attach captions about the community that the picture cannot support.
Research search match: Maasai men in red shukas, 1970s Kenya village visit, Super 8 safari home movie, vintage East Africa people footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with 'Maasai man beside planted spears' from the same reel, then with the Tsavo West gate, Kilaguni lodge and giraffe on lava plain clips, then with other East African travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two Maasai men by planted spears in a village in Kenya, circa 1979, other villagers in red at left and mountains beyond — Two men stand beside upright spears at a Maasai village, Kenya, circa 1979.
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The zoom brings in two Maasai men in checked and plain shukas, Kenya, circa 1979.

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Two Maasai men with stretched earlobes and earrings against blue mountains and a dark ridge, Kenya, circa 1979 — Earrings and stretched earlobes, seen in profile against the hills, Kenya, circa 1979.
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The shot settles on two Maasai men under an acacia, Kenya, circa 1979.

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