Lagos Nigeria-1969: Hyenas Laying In Grass Relaxing Trying To Keep Cool

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

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Hyenas Laying In Grass Relaxing Trying To Keep Cool — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, 1969, showing two hyenas resting together on a grassy field. The animals lie side-by-side, appearing relaxed and attempting to cool off in the warm climate. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural color degradation, and visible grain, capturing a candid moment of wildlife behavior in a natural setting. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into African wildlife and mid-century home movie aesthetics.

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: 122663682

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: Useful for 1960s African wildlife or zoo-adjacent archive requests needing brief 8mm animal behavior footage for documentary, educational, or editorial inserts.
Period detail: The soft 8mm color, grain, and simple observational framing support the 1969 home-movie period noted in the metadata, though no dated signage or landmarks are visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a visitor or traveler quietly filming resting animals rather than staged wildlife coverage.
What appears in frame: Two hyenas rest close together in green grass, with spotted coats, pale fur, dark muzzles, soft background vegetation, and black film-frame borders visible.
Film character: Visible grain, muted color, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing give the footage a recognizable small-gauge home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife cutaway, quiet observational insert, or transitional beat within a sequence about animals, travel, heat, or archival memory.
Historical context: The footage visually documents captive or observed hyenas at rest in a grassy setting, but the frames do not identify a specific facility or natural reserve.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-based permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 Lagos Nigeria 8mm hyenas, vintage home movie African wildlife, resting hyenas in grass, and archival animal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other Lagos 1969 material, then 1960s Nigeria travel footage or archival wildlife behavior clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing two hyenas resting side by side in a grassy area with soft focus and visible film borders. — Two hyenas rest together in grass, seen in soft small-gauge film texture.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria frame of two hyenas lying together on grass, one facing the other within a dark 8mm film border. — The pair remains close together on the grass, with one hyena turned toward the other.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm still showing two hyenas lying low in green grass, filmed from a steady visitor-like viewpoint. — The animals stay low in the grass, appearing relaxed and still.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria frame showing two hyenas resting in a grassy area, with muted color, film grain, and dark frame edges. — The final still holds on the resting hyenas in a quiet grassy setting.

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