Lagos Nigeria-1969: A Lion Pride Lying Down In The Long Green Grass

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A Lion Pride Lying Down In The Long Green Grass — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, in 1969 captures a lion pride resting in tall green grass. The grainy, color-bleached film shows several lionesses and cubs lying together on a grassy knoll, with some looking alertly toward the camera. The natural setting features sparse bushes and trees in the background, with the lions' tawny fur contrasting against the lush greenery. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics, including film grain, slight motion blur, and dark borders, offering a nostalgic glimpse of African wildlife from a personal archive.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122663880

Rights & Clearance

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s archive requests needing 8mm African wildlife material for documentary inserts, educational sequences, or editorial cutaways.
Period detail: The footage carries 1969 home-movie context through its 8mm color stock, soft focus, dark frame edges, and handheld safari-style vantage point.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged visitor perspective, holding on a resting lion pride as the animals shift and look toward the camera from tall grass.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include lionesses, cubs, long green grass, low shrubs, bare-branched bushes, darker tree trunks, soft focus, and black film borders.
Film character: Grain, color fade, slight blur, uneven exposure, and gate shadows give the short scene a recognizable late-1960s 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, or quiet transition beat within a broader Lagos, Nigeria, or African archive sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows wildlife filmed from a personal archive perspective in or near Lagos, with no visible people, vehicles, signs, or identifiable built landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and confirm location and species context for their project.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 Lagos Nigeria 8mm lion pride, vintage African wildlife home movie, lionesses and cubs in long grass, and archival safari footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Lagos 1969 material, then broader vintage African wildlife or home-movie travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing a lion pride resting in long grass, with cubs partly hidden among shrubs. — Lion pride lying together in tall grass, with several animals facing the camera.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame with lionesses and cubs resting among long grass and brush, several facing the camera. — Resting lionesses and cubs in green grass with sparse trees in the background.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing a pale lioness in front of a resting pride, with cubs partly obscured by grass. — A foreground lioness rests while other lions lie behind her in the grass.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing lionesses and cubs resting across a grassy patch, partly screened by brush. — The pride remains settled in tall grass as cubs and lionesses blend into the vegetation.

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