Lagos Nigeria-1969: Waterbuck in Savanna Grassland

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

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Waterbuck in Savanna Grassland — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, 1969, capturing a waterbuck in a sunlit African savanna. The dark-coated antelope with prominent ringed horns stands alert in tall green grass, its white rump patch visible as it surveys the landscape. Another antelope rests in the background near a lone acacia tree under a pale blue sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and natural edge vignetting, offering authentic archival wildlife footage from a 1960s expedition.

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: 122664256

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: 1969 8mm wildlife footage for documentary inserts, museum programs, or educational sequences needing African savanna animal material from a home-movie source.
Period detail: The 8mm color, soft exposure, edge vignetting, and handheld framing support a late-1960s home-movie record rather than a staged wildlife production.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds on the antelope from a visitor or traveler viewpoint, preserving an observational moment without visible staging or narration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a horned waterbuck, tall green grass, a resting antelope, sparse trees, a low dark ridge, pale sky, and rounded film-frame edges.
Film character: The clip carries physical-film grain, muted color, slight softness, and dark gate edges that give the wildlife view clear archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife cutaway, expedition memory beat, or quiet transition into 1960s travel and nature material.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a waterbuck-like antelope in open grassland near Lagos according to metadata, without showing people, buildings, or urban context.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, archive ownership, location identification, and wildlife species labeling should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful matches include 1960s Nigeria 8mm wildlife, Lagos home movie antelope, African savanna waterbuck footage, and vintage travel nature film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then Lagos or Nigeria material from 1969, then broader 1960s African wildlife and travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing a horned waterbuck-like antelope in tall savanna grass with another antelope in the background. — A horned antelope stands alert in open grassland while another rests farther back.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame of a waterbuck-like antelope facing the camera in tall grass, with a bare tree and distant ridge behind. — The antelope faces the camera in tall grass with sparse trees on the horizon.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing a side view of a dark-coated waterbuck-like antelope with long curved horns in grassland. — A side-on view shows the animal's long curved horns and dark coat in the savanna grass.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame of a waterbuck-like antelope standing in tall grass against an open horizon and pale sky. — The antelope remains still in the grassland, framed by open sky and a low horizon.

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