Lagos Nigeria-1969: Hartebeest Walking In Savanna Field

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationLagos, Nigeria
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Nigeria

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Hartebeest Walking In Savanna Field — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, in 1969 captures a hartebeest standing and walking through a grassy savanna field. The animal, with its distinctive long face and ringed horns, moves across the frame against a backdrop of scattered trees and distant hills under a clear sky. The film exhibits characteristic grain, slight motion blur, and a warm color palette typical of 1960s Super 8 footage. The clip offers authentic wildlife observation from a classic era of amateur filmmaking, ideal for historical or nature documentaries.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122663657

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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 (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: Lagos, Nigeria 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

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: 1960s 8mm wildlife footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing an archival savanna animal observation.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1969 amateur color-film view, with open grassland, distant trees, low hills, and no visible modern structures or vehicles.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a visitor filming wildlife from a distance, following the animal with a brief handheld home-movie view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a hartebeest-like antelope, tall grass, open field, scattered trees, distant low hills, blue sky, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild color shift, handheld framing, and contact-sheet edge marks consistent with small-gauge home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, transition between African landscape scenes, or brief archival nature observation.
Historical context: The scene documents a filmed encounter with a grazing antelope in open savanna-like terrain, without visible people, buildings, or identifiable events.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but species identification, location context, copyright status, and usage rights should still be verified.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1960s 8mm Nigeria wildlife, Lagos 1969 home movie antelope, hartebeest in grassland, and vintage African savanna footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Lagos or Nigeria 1969 clips, then broader 1960s African wildlife and grassland material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing a hartebeest-like antelope standing in a grassy field with soft focus and film grain. — A hartebeest-like antelope stands in tall grass within a soft, grainy 8mm frame.

The antelope stands in profile against grassland, trees, and a distant low horizon.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing a hartebeest-like antelope walking left to right through tall grass under a blue sky. — The antelope begins walking through the grass, with a tree line and hills in the background.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing the antelope walking through grass, with part of another animal visible at the right edge. — The antelope moves across the field as a second animal is partly visible at the edge of frame.

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