Lagos Nigeria-1969: Old Footage Of Three Lions Lying Down In A Grass And Brush

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

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Old Footage Of Three Lions Lying Down In A Grass And Brush — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, 1969, showing a lioness and her three cubs resting together in a grassy field. The family of lions lies calmly on a small hillside, surrounded by green grass and sparse brush, with a dense treeline in the background. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and natural lighting, capturing a serene moment in the wild. The footage is a rare glimpse of African wildlife from a personal archive, offering authentic, unscripted animal behavior.

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: 122663832

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 archive requests needing brief real 8mm footage of lions at rest for documentary, museum, education, or editorial use.
Period detail: The scene is dated by metadata to Lagos, Nigeria, 1969, while the visible clues are mainly the 8mm color stock, soft focus, grain, and contact-print framing.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, observing the lions quietly from a distance without staged animal action or narration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include three resting lions, green grass, low brush, a small raised patch of ground, dense trees, soft daylight, and black film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has a soft 8mm texture with visible grain, muted green and tawny color, slight exposure variation, and a stable but informal home-movie composition.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife insert, contextual cutaway, travel-memory beat, or quiet transition within a sequence on African animals or archival tourism.
Historical context: The clip shows lions resting in a grassy, brushy setting and should be treated as a personal 1969 travel or wildlife record rather than evidence of a specific reserve or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright ownership and any location or animal-facility permissions should be checked separately before commercial use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 Nigeria 8mm wildlife footage, lions resting in grass, African home movie animals, vintage lioness and cubs footage, and Lagos travel archive.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other Lagos or Nigeria 1969 scenes, and then with broader 1960s African wildlife or travel home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 8mm footage from Lagos, Nigeria, showing three lions lying together in green grass near sparse brush and a dark treeline. — Three lions rest together in grass at the edge of brush and trees.

The lions remain grouped on a grassy patch in the Lagos, Nigeria 1969 home-movie footage, with shrubs and trees behind them. — The resting lions stay close together in the grass.

Three lions are visible on a low green slope, framed by sparse brush and darker trees in the 1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm scene. — Lions rest on a low grassy rise with brush behind them.

At the end of the clip, the three lions remain calm in the grass, with low brush and dense trees filling the background. — The lions remain still in the grass as the brief shot ends.

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