Lagos Nigeria-1969: Hyena and Waterbucks in Savanna

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

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Hyena and Waterbucks in Savanna — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, in 1969 captures a wild African savanna scene. A hyena walks through tall grass and shrubs, its spotted coat visible in the natural light. The clip transitions to a wide grassy plain where two antelopes, likely waterbucks with prominent ringed horns, graze under a pale blue sky. One animal stands alert, facing the camera, while the other feeds. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic wildlife footage offers a rare glimpse of Nigerian fauna from the late 1960s.

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: 122664198

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 editorial or documentary requests needing short archival wildlife footage from Nigeria with savanna animals in a home-movie source.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly the 8mm film texture, muted color, and metadata-supported 1969 Lagos, Nigeria setting rather than identifiable landmarks or dated objects.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a traveler or visitor filming wildlife from a distance, with animals moving naturally rather than staged for camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tall grass, shrubs, scattered trees, a hyena-like animal, grazing horned antelopes, open sky, and dark film frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, color shifts, and handheld framing give the footage a period 8mm home-movie character suitable for archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, or transition between broader African landscape and animal behavior material.
Historical context: The frames show wildlife in a grassy savanna or park-like landscape, but they do not establish a specific reserve, landmark, or event beyond the supplied Lagos 1969 metadata.
Research note: No people, brands, or readable property marks are visible, but users should still verify copyright, source permissions, and species or location identification before publication.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 Nigeria 8mm wildlife, Lagos home movie savanna animals, hyena in grass, and waterbuck or horned antelope grazing.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other footage from the same reel, then Lagos or Nigeria 1969 material, then broader African wildlife and savanna animal scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A hyena-like animal moves through tall grass and brush in metadata-supported 1969 Lagos, Nigeria wildlife footage. — Hyena-like animal partly obscured by grass and shrubs.

A hyena-like animal appears in brush and tall grass, seen from a distant 8mm home-movie viewpoint in Lagos, Nigeria metadata. — Wild animal visible among grass, shrubs, and scattered trees.

Two likely waterbucks are seen in tall grass, one alert with ringed horns and one grazing, in 1969 Nigeria archival footage. — Horned antelopes in an open grassy plain under pale sky.

A likely waterbuck stands alert in tall grass while another grazes nearby, filmed in soft 8mm color in metadata-supported Nigeria. — One antelope faces the camera as another feeds in the grass.

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