Lagos Nigeria-1969: Marabou Stork and Jackal in Grassland

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

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Marabou Stork and Jackal in Grassland — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, in 1969 captures a large marabou stork standing in a grassy field, its long beak open and distinctive pink-and-black plumage visible. The scene transitions to a jackal standing alert among sparse trees in the same natural setting. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, warm color tones, and a slightly shaky handheld camera perspective, offering authentic archival wildlife observation from a private collection.

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: 122664167

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: Useful for 1960s African wildlife or private-travel archive requests needing brief natural-history cutaways from 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The visible period clues are mainly the soft 8mm color, handheld framing, and metadata-supported 1969 Lagos setting rather than identifiable landmarks or built details.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged observer pausing on wildlife in grassland, with the camera holding as animals stand alert rather than performing for the lens.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a marabou stork with an open bill, pink neck, dark body plumage, pale legs, tall grass, sparse tree trunks, and a jackal in the final frame.
Film character: The footage shows visible film grain, soft focus, muted color, slight exposure variation, and handheld steadiness typical of scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a short wildlife insert, location texture, transition from travel material to natural landscape, or observational cutaway within a 1960s sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers private-camera evidence of wildlife observed near Lagos in 1969, while the frames themselves do not establish a specific reserve, event, or expedition.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but users should still verify copyright ownership and any location or species identification before publication.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 Lagos 8mm wildlife footage, marabou stork home movie, jackal in grassland, Nigerian nature archive, and Super 8 African animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other scenes from the same reel, then with 1969 Lagos or Nigeria travel footage, then with broader African wildlife and grassland observation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Marabou stork in a grassy Lagos setting, supported by 1969 clip metadata, with dark body feathers, pale legs, and an open bill. — A marabou stork stands in grass, framed by dark vertical edges from the 8mm scan.

Side view of a marabou stork in grassland near Lagos, with long bill, pink neck, dark body, and pale legs visible. — The stork remains side-on in a grassy field, with sparse vegetation behind it.

Marabou stork held in soft 8mm focus in the 1969 Lagos footage, standing among green grass with its bill partly open. — A closer handheld view keeps the stork centered against the grassland background.

A jackal stands alert in green grass among sparse tree trunks in the Lagos wildlife scene documented by the clip metadata. — A jackal pauses in the grass beneath sparse trees at the end of the clip.

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