Lagos Nigeria-1969: A Bird On Top Of A Branch Overlooking Baby Deer In The Field

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

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A Bird On Top Of A Branch Overlooking Baby Deer In The Field — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, 1969, showing a serene wildlife scene in a grassy field. Several young antelope, likely gazelles, graze and rest in the tall green grass, with one standing alert in the foreground. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur typical of amateur 1960s home movies. The sequence transitions to a dramatic shot of a bird perched on a weathered tree stump against a moody, cloudy sky with deep blue and purple tones. This authentic archival footage captures the natural beauty of Nigeria's savanna and is ideal for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical storytelling.

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: 122664453

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: 1960s 8mm wildlife home-movie footage from Nigeria for documentary inserts, educational context, or atmospheric archive sequences involving animals and landscape.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly the 8mm film texture, color shift, and handheld framing, with the 1969 Lagos, Nigeria attribution supported by clip metadata rather than visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an observational home-movie perspective, lingering on grazing antelope-like animals and a perched bird without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tall grass, several small antelope-like animals, one alert foreground animal, a dark perched bird, a weathered stump, blue-purple sky, clouds, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip shows pronounced 8mm grain, soft focus, color drift, slight blur, and exposure variation that give the wildlife views a physical home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, quiet transition, location texture, or memory beat between broader sequences about travel, landscape, or animals.
Historical context: The frames show animal life in an open grassy setting and a bird against a clouded sky, but they do not identify a specific park, species, event, or urban Lagos landmark.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, though species, exact location, copyright status, and any collection restrictions should be verified separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s Nigeria 8mm wildlife footage, Lagos home movie animals, antelope in grass field, and bird perched on stump archival film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then other 1969 Lagos or Nigeria footage, then broader 1960s wildlife, travel, and home-movie nature scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Lagos-attributed 8mm frame showing small antelope-like animals grazing and resting in tall grass, with one foreground animal alert. — Antelope-like animals graze and rest in a grassy field, one standing alert near the center.

Lagos-attributed 1969 8mm frame with several antelope-like animals in a grassy field, including one standing alert in the foreground. — A small group of antelope-like animals is seen in tall grass, with one animal upright and alert.

1969 Lagos-attributed 8mm frame showing a dark bird perched on a weathered stump beneath a blue-purple clouded sky. — A bird perches on a weathered stump, silhouetted against a dramatic cloudy sky.

Lagos-attributed 1969 8mm frame of a perched bird silhouetted on a stump against a moody blue-purple sky. — The bird remains perched on the stump as clouds fill the background.

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