Lagos Nigeria-1969: Two Hyenas Play In Grass Field

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

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Two Hyenas Play In Grass Field — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, in 1969 captures two spotted hyenas in a grassy savannah field. The grainy, color-bleached film shows the hyenas interacting closely—nuzzling, play-fighting, and moving through tall green grass under natural daylight. One hyena frequently looks toward the camera, offering a direct, curious gaze. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, film grain, and a dark border frame, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic wildlife moment offers rare, candid animal behavior from a private collection.

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: 122663721

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1960s wildlife or West Africa archive requests needing brief 8mm home-movie footage of spotted hyenas in grass for documentary, museum, education, or editorial use.
Period detail: The visible period detail comes mainly from the 8mm color home-movie texture, soft focus, rounded dark frame edges, and metadata-supported 1969 Lagos, Nigeria attribution.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged observer quality, with the camera holding on two hyenas as they nuzzle, crouch, look up, and move through tall grass.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two spotted hyenas, tall green grass, an open field, soft daylight, dark film borders, and occasional direct looks toward the camera.
Film character: The clip carries a physical 8mm look with visible grain, muted color, soft focus, exposure variation, and frame-edge darkness that reads as archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife insert, behavior cutaway, African travel-reel transition, or memory beat within a natural-history sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually documents captive or wild hyena behavior in a grassy setting, but the frames do not confirm enclosure status or a specific landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, collection permissions, animal-location identification, and use-context review should remain separate clearance steps.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 Lagos Nigeria 8mm hyenas, vintage home movie African wildlife, spotted hyenas in grass, and 1960s Super 8 animal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Lagos footage, then other 1969 Nigeria material, then broader 1960s African wildlife or home-movie animal behavior clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing two spotted hyenas close together in a grassy field, one facing the camera. — Two hyenas stand and nuzzle in tall grass, with one looking toward the camera.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame of a spotted hyena crouched in tall grass and looking toward the camera. — A hyena pauses in the grass and faces the camera in soft daylight.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing two spotted hyenas low in the grass during close interaction. — The hyenas crouch together in the grass during a close, playful interaction.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame with one spotted hyena bent low in tall grass and another partly obscured nearby. — One hyena bends low in the grass as the second animal is partly hidden beside it.

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