Lagos Nigeria-1969: Large White and Black Birds Foraging in Savanna with Baboon

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

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Large White and Black Birds Foraging in Savanna with Baboon — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, in 1969 captures a group of large marabou storks with distinctive black and white plumage foraging in a grassy savanna. The birds, with their long legs and bare heads, move through the green landscape under scattered acacia trees. In the background, a baboon stands atop a termite mound, adding to the authentic African wildlife scene. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural color degradation, and subtle grain, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century wildlife observation.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122664083

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 African wildlife cutaways, especially savanna birds and mixed animal behavior in home-movie footage.
Period detail: The soft 8mm color, handheld framing, and metadata-supported 1969 Lagos setting place this as late-1960s visitor-shot wildlife footage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational home-movie perspective, watching birds forage while a baboon remains in the background rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include marabou storks, grassy ground, scattered trees, a bare earth mound, a baboon, and dark contact-sheet frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries soft focus, muted color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld 8mm texture consistent with scanned home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, or quiet transition within material about Nigeria, animal observation, or 1960s travel.
Historical context: The scene visually documents a visitor’s wildlife encounter near Lagos in 1969 without showing people, signage, buildings, or identifiable institutions.
Research note: No people, brands, or music are indicated, but copyright and any location or wildlife-use permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 Lagos Nigeria 8mm wildlife, marabou storks foraging, baboon in savanna, African home movie animal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1969 Lagos material, then related African wildlife or bird-foraging home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Lagos 8mm frame showing large marabou storks foraging in grass beneath sparse trees. — Marabou storks stand and forage in a grassy, wooded area.

1969 Lagos wildlife frame with marabou storks in grass and a baboon standing on a bare mound behind them. — Storks forage in the foreground while a baboon stands on raised earth behind them.

1969 Lagos 8mm frame showing storks feeding near grass and a baboon watching from a raised mound. — A baboon stands on the mound as storks feed in the lower part of the frame.

1969 Lagos home-movie frame with marabou storks crossing grass and a baboon visible on the raised ground behind. — Storks move through the grassy foreground with the baboon still visible behind them.

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