Lagos Nigeria-1969: Hyena Carries Bone in Grassland

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

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Hyena Carries Bone in Grassland — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, in 1969 captures a hyena in a grassy savanna environment. The clip shows a spotted hyena walking toward the camera, then another hyena carrying a bone or carcass fragment in its mouth. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: grainy texture, soft focus, and natural color tones typical of 1960s amateur film. The scene unfolds in a lush green field, with the hyenas moving naturally through the grass. This authentic archival material offers a rare glimpse into African wildlife from a bygone era, perfect for historical documentaries, nature projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 122663703

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 (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: Lagos, 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 8mm wildlife footage from Lagos, Nigeria supports documentary or educational requests for archival African animal behavior and savanna-like grassland views.
Period detail: The visible period clues come mainly from the soft 8mm color, grain, frame weave, and home-movie exposure rather than from built structures or dated objects.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an observational home-movie character, with the camera watching hyenas move through grass without staged presentation or human direction visible.
What appears in frame: Across the four frames, visible elements include spotted hyenas, tall green grass, a pale bone or carcass fragment, soft-focus background vegetation, dark film-gate borders, and contact-sheet frame divisions.
Film character: The clip shows a grainy 8mm scan with muted natural color, soft focus, uneven exposure, slight blur, and dark frame edges that give it clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife insert, animal-behavior cutaway, archival transition, or memory beat within a sequence about African fauna or 1960s travel footage.
Historical context: The scene visually documents hyenas in a grassy outdoor setting associated by metadata with Lagos, Nigeria in 1969, without visible people, buildings, signage, or identifiable landmarks.
Research note: No people, children, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but wildlife behavior, source copyright, location metadata, and any underlying collection rights should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1960s 8mm Nigeria wildlife footage, Lagos 1969 hyena home movie, spotted hyena carrying bone, and archival African grassland animal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other Lagos or Nigeria 1969 material, and then with broader 1960s African wildlife or travel home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

A spotted hyena faces the camera in tall green grass in 1969 home-movie footage identified as Lagos, Nigeria. — Hyena facing the camera in grass.

A spotted hyena moves through tall grass while carrying a pale bone or carcass fragment in 1969 footage identified as Lagos, Nigeria. — Hyena carrying a bone or carcass fragment.

Profile view of hyena carrying remains.

A spotted hyena lowers its head toward the grass near a pale object in 1969 home-movie footage identified as Lagos, Nigeria. — Hyena lowering its head in the grass.

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