Lagos Nigeria-1969: Two Marabou Storks in Grassy Field

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

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Two Marabou Storks in Grassy Field — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, 1969, showing two large marabou storks with long beaks and black feathers standing in a grassy field. The birds have distinctive bald heads and long legs, captured in natural daylight with a soft, grainy film texture. The handheld camera follows the storks as they move slowly across the green landscape, with sparse trees and a dirt mound visible in the background. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of Nigerian wildlife from the late 1960s, ideal for documentaries, nature projects, or historical storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorHandheld
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122664072

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

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: Supports 1960s West Africa wildlife or travel-documentary requests needing brief 8mm home-movie views of large birds in a grassy field near Lagos.
Period detail: The soft color, grain, handheld framing and 8mm source support a late-1960s home-movie reading, while the visible scene itself is an open grassy habitat with sparse trees.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the birds from a distance with simple handheld pans and reframing, preserving an unstaged visitor or amateur nature-viewing perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include long-beaked storks, dark bodies, pale legs, grassy ground, scattered trees, a dirt mound, and soft daylight.
Film character: The clip has muted color, visible grain, slight softness, handheld movement and uneven exposure typical of scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, travel insert, quiet transition, or memory beat within a sequence about Nigeria, birds, or amateur nature filming.
Historical context: The footage places large wading birds within a green outdoor setting in Lagos-era home-movie material without showing people, buildings, signage, or identifiable events.
Research note: No people, logos or private property are visible, but species identification, location context, copyright status and any underlying archive rights should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1969 Lagos 8mm birds, Nigeria home movie wildlife, marabou storks in grass, and 1960s African nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Lagos or Nigeria footage from 1969, then broader 1960s wildlife, bird, grassland, or travel-home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Lagos 8mm frame showing a large long-beaked stork standing in a grassy field with soft focus and film grain. — A large stork stands in tall green grass, framed by dark film or camera edges.

Two large storks appear at different distances in a grassy Lagos field, recorded with a soft 8mm home-movie look. — Two long-beaked birds stand apart in the grass, with sparse trees in the background.

A 1969 Lagos home-movie frame shows multiple storks in a grassy area with a tree trunk and dirt mound behind them. — Several storks gather in the grass near a slender tree and earthen mound.

Two long-legged storks stand in a grassy Lagos field near a bare tree trunk, with muted color and visible 8mm grain. — Two large storks stand side by side in the grass near a bare tree trunk.

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