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Lagos Nigeria-1969: A Lion Strolls Through Tall Grass

  • Year1969
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationLagos, Nigeria
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1969 Nigeria
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A Lion Strolls Through Tall Grass — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, in 1969 captures a majestic male lion walking through tall grass in a natural savanna setting. The lion, with a full mane, moves steadily across the frame, its powerful form highlighted by the grainy, slightly faded color palette of the film. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—soft focus, film grain, and subtle color shifts—evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The camera remains relatively stable, tracking the lion’s movement through the wild landscape, offering a rare glimpse of wildlife captured on personal film during the late 1960s.

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
122663944

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for requests seeking late-1960s Nigerian wildlife footage, safari-context cutaways, or archival home-movie inserts showing a male lion in tall grass.
Period detail
The visible clues are mainly the 8mm color home-movie texture and natural grassland setting; the 1969 Lagos, Nigeria identification is supported by clip metadata rather than visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior
The clip has the value of a traveler or visitor-shot wildlife observation, with the camera holding on the lion rather than staging an action.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a male lion with a mane, tall grass, low green vegetation, soft background foliage, daylight exposure, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character
The footage shows soft 8mm focus, visible grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing that reinforce its physical home-movie origin.
Edit role
An editor could use it as a short wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, transitional beat, or period texture in a sequence about animals, Nigeria, or personal travel footage.
Historical context
The scene provides a personal-film view of a lion in a grassland environment, but the frames do not identify a specific reserve, landmark, or event.
Research note
No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-based permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match
Matches searches for 1969 8mm Nigeria lion footage, vintage home movie wildlife, male lion walking in tall grass, and archival safari animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1969 Lagos or Nigeria material, and then with broader vintage wildlife or safari-themed home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Lagos, Nigeria home-movie frame showing a male lion moving through tall grass with dark film-frame edges.
A male lion moves through tall grass in a soft, grainy 8mm frame.
Male lion in profile crossing a grassy area in archival 8mm footage identified as Lagos, Nigeria, 1969.
The lion is seen in profile as it walks across the grassland.
Soft 8mm frame of a male lion moving through grass, with muted color and motion blur in the 1969 Nigeria footage.
Motion blur and film grain soften the lion as it passes through the grass.
Male lion near taller green vegetation in a Lagos, Nigeria 1969 home-movie frame with soft color and 8mm grain.
The lion appears closer to denser vegetation near the edge of the frame.

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