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Lagos Nigeria-1969: Lioness And Her Children

  • Year1969
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationLagos, Nigeria
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1969 Nigeria
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Lioness And Her Children — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, in 1969 captures a pride of lion cubs resting in tall grass near shrubs. The grainy, color-bleached film shows several young lions lying together in a natural savanna setting, with one cub looking alertly toward the camera. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—soft focus, film grain, and a slightly faded color palette—evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The scene is calm and observational, filmed from a distance, likely from a vehicle, with dark frame borders suggesting a projector view. This authentic wildlife moment offers a rare glimpse of African wildlife in a 1960s home movie context.

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
122663882

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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

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  • vintage nature
  • film grain

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1960s archival requests needing brief wildlife footage from Lagos, Nigeria, especially documentary or educational edits about lions, travel, or home-movie views of animals.
Period detail
The frames show faded color 8mm footage with rounded dark borders and soft focus, consistent with the supplied 1969 home-movie metadata rather than a clearly identifiable landmark or dated event.
Home-movie behavior
The clip has the observational feel of a visitor filming from a distance, holding on a pride resting in grass rather than staging or directing the animal behavior.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include lion cubs or young lions, a possible adult lioness, tall grass, low shrubs, trees, dark film borders, and a contact-sheet scan layout.
Film character
The footage carries visible 8mm texture through grain, muted color, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight framing drift that help place it in a physical home-movie archive.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a short wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, or quiet transition between broader 1960s Nigeria or African animal footage.
Historical context
The clip visually documents wildlife encountered by a home-movie camera near Lagos in 1969, but the frames do not establish a specific reserve, zoo, or expedition context.
Research note
No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, though users should still verify copyright, source rights, and any location or wildlife-use requirements for their project.
Research search match
Likely matches searches for 1969 Nigeria 8mm lion footage, Lagos home movie wildlife, vintage African lion cubs, lioness with cubs in grass, and Super 8 safari-style footage.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1969 Lagos material, then related vintage 8mm wildlife, safari, savanna, or lion family footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing young lions or cubs resting in grass near shrubs, with dark rounded film borders.
Lion cubs rest in tall grass near low shrubs as one animal looks toward the camera.
Faded 8mm frame from Lagos, Nigeria in 1969 showing a group of lions resting in a grassy area with shrubs behind them.
A group of lions rests together in grass, partly hidden by vegetation.
Soft, grainy 1969 Lagos home-movie frame of lions gathered low in grass with shrubs and brush around them.
Lions remain clustered low in the grass, partly obscured by brush.
1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing tall grass, shrubs, and trees after the camera shifts away from the lions.
The camera drifts to surrounding grass, shrubs, and trees with no lions clearly visible.

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