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Nigeria-1969: Lioness Walking on Rocky Outcrop

  • Year1969
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationNigeria
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1969 Nigeria
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Lioness Walking on Rocky Outcrop — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Nigeria in 1969 showing a pride of lions resting on a rocky outcrop under a cloudy sky. Three lionesses are visible, with one walking across the frame while others lie or sit. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight vignetting, capturing a candid moment of wildlife in the wild. The scene conveys a sense of natural serenity and archival authenticity, ideal for historical or wildlife documentaries.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution
4K Digitally Restored
License
Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
122663533

Rights & Clearance

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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location
Nigeria Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
1969 Nigeria home-movie wildlife footage can support documentary or educational requests for archival lion behavior and African safari-era travel material.
Period detail
The 8mm color image, soft focus, fading, and contact-sheet framing support a late-1960s home-movie feel, while no modern structures or signage are visible.
Home-movie behavior
The clip preserves a visitor-shot wildlife moment, with the camera holding on lionesses resting and moving across a rocky outcrop rather than staging action.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include three lionesses, a rocky ledge, dark foreground shadows, low vegetation, a cloudy sky, distant horizon, and film-frame borders.
Film character
The footage shows pronounced 8mm grain, muted color, uneven exposure, slight vignetting, and soft handheld framing that read as original physical-film texture.
Edit role
An editor could use it as a wildlife cutaway, safari-travel insert, or quiet transition beat within a 1960s Africa or natural-history sequence.
Historical context
The scene documents lions observed in the wild or a reserve setting in Nigeria, without visible people, vehicles, buildings, or identifying signage in the frames.
Research note
No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location access, and wildlife-setting identification should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match
Useful search matches include 1969 Nigeria 8mm lions, vintage home movie lionesses on rocks, African wildlife archive footage, and 1960s safari film.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Nigeria 1969 travel or wildlife material, and then with broader 1960s African animal footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Nigeria 1969 8mm frame showing three lionesses on a rocky ledge under a cloudy sky, one standing while two rest nearby.
Three lionesses rest and stand on a rocky outcrop below a clouded horizon.
Nigeria 1969 8mm frame with lionesses on a rocky outcrop, including one standing in profile near resting animals.
A standing lioness faces right while two others stay low on the rocky ledge.
Nigeria 1969 8mm frame showing a lioness lowering her head on a rocky ledge, with another lioness sitting at left.
A lioness lowers her head near the center as another sits farther left on the rocks.
Nigeria 1969 8mm frame with one lioness standing at right and two others resting on the rocky outcrop below clouds.
One lioness stands at the right edge while the others remain settled on the rocky ledge.

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