Lagos Nigeria-1969: Disguised Camouflaged Lion Sitting In Tall Grass

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

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Disguised Camouflaged Lion Sitting In Tall Grass — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Lagos, Nigeria, in 1969 captures a camouflaged lion partially hidden in tall, dry grasses of the savanna. The animal, with a thick brown mane, remains motionless, blending into the golden-green landscape. The grainy, slightly blurred image reflects the authentic quality of home movie film, with natural light and subtle movement in the grass suggesting a warm, windy day. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse of wildlife in its natural habitat, evoking a sense of quiet anticipation and the untamed beauty of Africa.

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: 122663796

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: Useful for 1960s archival productions needing a brief wildlife cutaway from Nigerian home-movie footage with a lion partly hidden in grass.
Period detail: The frames show 8mm-era color film texture and metadata places the scene in Lagos, Nigeria in 1969, though no landmarks or dated objects are visible.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds at a distance on a still animal, giving the clip the observational quality of a traveler or visitor filming wildlife without staging.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark-maned lion, tall dry grass, green-brown savanna vegetation, soft natural light, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The clip has grainy 8mm color, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and a compressed telephoto-like view that add physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife insert, quiet tension cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transitional image within a broader Nigeria or African wildlife sequence.
Historical context: The scene records a mid-20th-century home-movie view of wildlife in tall grass, with the animal largely obscured rather than presented in a formal nature-film style.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but copyright, source ownership, location context, and wildlife depiction should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Searches such as 1969 Nigeria 8mm lion in tall grass, Lagos home movie wildlife, camouflaged lion footage, and vintage African savanna cutaway may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other Lagos or Nigeria 1969 material, then with vintage 8mm wildlife and savanna grass scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing a dark-maned lion sitting low and partly concealed by tall dry grass. — A lion sits almost motionless behind tall grass, its mane blending into the vegetation.

A 1969 Nigeria home-movie frame with the lion's dark mane and head partly visible through dense savanna grass. — The lion remains low in the grass, with only the mane and part of the head clearly visible.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm still of a partly obscured lion sitting among tall grass, seen from a distant home-movie viewpoint. — Tall grass covers much of the lion as the camera view stays distant and steady.

A soft 8mm frame from Lagos, Nigeria in 1969 showing a lion low in tall grass with its mane blending into the field. — The lion is mostly concealed by the surrounding grass near the end of the short shot.

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