Lagos Nigeria-1969: Lion Cubs Resting in Grass

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

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Lion Cubs Resting in Grass — 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 restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122663882

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 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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