Lagos Nigeria-1969: Three Waterbucks in Grassy Savanna

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

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Three Waterbucks in Grassy Savanna — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, 1969, showing a group of waterbucks in a grassy savanna. The clip opens with a single dark-coated antelope with prominent spiraled horns standing alert in tall green grass, then expands to reveal three animals together, all facing the camera. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, natural color saturation, and visible grain, capturing a candid moment of wildlife in its natural habitat under a partly cloudy sky.

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: 122664295

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 Nigerian wildlife or African savanna archive requests needing brief 8mm animal observation footage for documentary inserts or educational context.
Period detail: The visible 8mm color, soft focus, and contact-print framing support a late-1960s home-movie feel, while the Lagos, Nigeria, 1969 setting comes from supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor-shot quality, with the camera holding quietly as the waterbucks pause and look toward the lens.
What appears in frame: Tall green grass, a partly cloudy sky, distant low vegetation, one horned waterbuck, three waterbucks together, dark film borders, and soft handheld framing are visible.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture through visible grain, gentle color shifts, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and black frame edges from the scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife cutaway, scene-setting insert, or quiet memory beat within a travel, nature, or archival home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a casual 1969 home-movie view of antelope-like wildlife in open grassland near Lagos, without visible people, buildings, roads, or signage.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but species, location, copyright status, and any collection permissions should be verified before publication.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 Lagos Nigeria 8mm wildlife, waterbucks in savanna, African antelope home movie, and vintage grassland animal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Lagos or Nigeria 1969 footage, then broader 1960s African wildlife and savanna material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing one dark-coated waterbuck standing alert in tall savanna grass. — A horned waterbuck stands alone in the grass, facing the camera.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame with a horned waterbuck in tall grass, seen beside dark scan borders. — The waterbuck remains alert in the grass as the camera holds.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing three waterbucks grouped in open grassland beneath a cloudy sky. — Three waterbucks stand together in the savanna, all oriented toward the camera.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing a small group of waterbucks paused in grassland and facing the camera. — The group holds in the grass at the end of the brief wildlife shot.

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