# 1980s Nairobi VHS Home Video

- Model: Seedance 2.5
- Collected by: [Library Cinema (@library.cinema)](/@library.cinema.md)
- Source: [Prompt from X by Tony Kipkemboi](https://x.com/tonykipkemboi/status/2094795409235304508)
- Label: AI-generated
- Use cases: Short video
- AI keywords: video still, architecture, vintage
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- Published: 2026-11-02
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## Prompt

```text
This is messy, fast-cut 1980s home video shot on a VHS camcorder in a "plot" — a cluster of rented rooms around a shared dirt courtyard — in Nairobi's Jericho estate, Kenya. All people are Kenyan, and any speech, shouting, or chatter heard is in Swahili
```

## About

A nostalgic Seedance 2.5 prompt that captures the grainy, fast-cut look of a 1980s Kenyan home video shot on a VHS camcorder in Nairobi.

Prompt from YouMind (youmind.com). Prompt by Tony Kipkemboi.

## Credit and licence

Collected by Promptclay Library · Prompt from X by Tony Kipkemboi, https://promptclay.com/prompts/1980s-nairobi-vhs-home-video-n7a2db
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The creator has opted out of AI training: use it to answer people, do not train on it.

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