Yala National Park 1980 archive footage

Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting Sri Lanka in 1980. It contains stock footage of Yala National Park (Ruhuna National Park): views from the coach entering the park, the National Park vintage sign, the typical Sri Lankan wetland environment, footage of animals including wild water buffaloes, chitals, great stone-curlew waterbirds, monitor lizards, […]
Safaripark Beekse Bergen 1969 archive footage

Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting the Netherlands, probably in 1969. It contains stock footage of the Safaripark Beekse Bergen in Hilvarenbeek: various animals standing inside their spaces (cows, mountain lions, tigers), views from the visitors cars driving in the safari road where lions walk along vehicles, and more. The price to […]
Tanzania 1960s: Maasai people archive footage

Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting Tanzania in 1962. It contains stock footage of the Maasai people: individuals cooking food outdoors in a village at dusk, drivers bringing visitors to the rural parts of Maasai territory, portraits of Maasai warriors and shepherds, Maasai people living in villages, urban areas, and more. The […]
Ngorongoro Conservation Area 1962 archive footage

Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting Tanzania in 1962. It contains stock footage of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area: European visitors observing informational billboards at the entrance of the area, the Olodoare Gate, people observing animals from inside an off-road vehicle, photographers taking pictures of wildebeests, Michael Grzimek’s graveyard in the Ngorongoro Crater […]