Lagos Nigeria-1969: A Whole Crowd Of Lions Mostly Females Laying Together In The

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

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A Whole Crowd Of Lions Mostly Females Laying Together In The — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, in 1969 captures a pride of lions resting in tall green grass. The grainy, color-bleached film shows several lionesses and cubs lying together in a grassy clearing, with one lioness walking through the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, film grain, and a slightly faded color palette typical of 1960s amateur wildlife recordings. The scene conveys a quiet, natural moment in the wild, preserved as a nostalgic archival record.

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: 122664038

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 wildlife or Africa travel archive requests needing brief 8mm footage of lions resting in grass for documentary or educational use.
Period detail: The faded color, soft focus and 8mm frame texture support the supplied 1969 home-movie dating, while the visible setting is a grassy wildlife area without identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational home-movie viewpoint, holding on a quiet animal grouping rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include several lionesses, young lions or cubs, tall green grass, low shrubs, soft daylight and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries a soft, grainy 8mm look with muted color, slight blur and contact-sheet frame edges that mark it as physical-film archive material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife cutaway, natural-history insert, travel-memory beat or transition within a broader 1960s Africa sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows lions resting together in vegetation, offering visual context for amateur wildlife filming associated with the supplied Lagos, Nigeria, 1969 metadata.
Research note: No people, logos or private property are visible, but users should still confirm copyright, source ownership and any location-specific use requirements.
Research search match: Research matches include 1969 8mm lions in Nigeria, vintage home movie lion pride, African wildlife footage and lionesses resting in tall grass.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Lagos or Nigeria 1969 material, then broader 1960s African wildlife or lion-pride footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing a pride of lions resting in tall grass, with shrubs in the background and soft film grain. — A group of lions rests close together in grass while another lion stands partly behind the shrubs.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame with lions clustered in tall grass and a lioness walking behind them near brush. — Lions lie together in the grass while a lioness passes behind the group.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing resting lions in tall grass, with one lion standing behind the cluster near shrubs. — The pride remains settled in the grass as one lion stands behind them near the brush.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame of a lion pride resting in grass, with one lion bending down at the right edge of the group. — A lion bends toward the grass near a cluster of resting lions.

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