Lagos Nigeria-1969: African Savannah Wildlife Herd with Baby Antelope at Dusk

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

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African Savannah Wildlife Herd with Baby Antelope at Dusk — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from Lagos, Nigeria, in 1969 captures a herd of antelopes in the African savannah at dusk. The grainy, color-bleached imagery shows several antelopes, including a young calf, moving through tall grass with distant mountains and a treeline under a twilight sky. The handheld camera follows the animals with slight motion blur, conveying a sense of natural observation. This authentic home movie offers a nostalgic glimpse into wildlife and the era's amateur filmmaking style.

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: 122663663

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

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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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s African wildlife or travel-film requests needing brief observational 8mm footage of antelopes moving through grassland.
Period detail: The color 8mm texture, soft focus, and home-movie framing support a late-1960s amateur travel context, with the 1969 Lagos location supplied by metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from a distance as the animals shift positions in tall grass, suggesting an unstaged visitor or traveler filming a wildlife encounter.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include antelopes, a smaller young animal, tall grass, a treeline, distant hills, pale sky, and contact-print frame borders.
Film character: The clip has visible grain, muted color, soft exposure, slight handheld movement, and contact-sheet framing that read as physical 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, or quiet transition within a sequence about African landscapes or home-movie journeys.
Historical context: The footage shows wildlife in open grassland and reflects the perspective of a home-movie camera rather than a staged natural-history production.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but species identification, location, copyright, and any contextual claims should be independently checked.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1960s 8mm African wildlife, Nigeria home movie antelopes, savannah grassland animals, and vintage travel film wildlife.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1969 Lagos or Nigeria material, then broader African wildlife and grassland home-movie clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Lagos-area 8mm frame showing antelopes in tall grass, with a treeline and distant hills under a pale sky. — Antelopes pause in a grassland landscape with distant hills visible beyond the treeline.

1969 Lagos-area 8mm frame of a small antelope near adults in tall grass, with trees and low hills in the background. — A smaller antelope stands close to adults as the group moves through tall grass.

1969 Lagos-area 8mm frame with antelopes partly cropped at the edges, standing in grass before a dark treeline. — The handheld framing catches the antelopes partly at the edge of the shot.

1969 Lagos-area 8mm frame showing antelopes grouped in grass, one partly cropped at left, with a treeline beyond. — Antelopes gather in the grass as the camera holds a distant observational view.

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