Lagos Nigeria-1969: Guinea Fowl Moving Through Tall Grasses In Daylight

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

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Guinea Fowl Moving Through Tall Grasses In Daylight — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, in 1969 captures a group of guinea fowl moving through tall, dry grasses in a sunlit field. The grainy, slightly blurred image with visible film scratches and dark borders reflects the authentic quality of archival Super 8 footage. The birds, with their distinctive blue and red facial markings, are partially obscured by the dense vegetation as they forage and walk in a line. The natural daylight and earthy tones of green and brown evoke a nostalgic, documentary-style glimpse of African wildlife in its natural habitat.

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: 122664508

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: Supports requests for 1960s Nigerian home-movie wildlife material for documentary inserts, education programs, or nature-history cutaways.
Period detail: The frames show only tall grass, handheld 8mm framing, and guinea fowl-like birds, with the 1969 Lagos setting supported by clip metadata rather than visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged observer perspective, watching small wild birds move through grass without posed action or visible human direction.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tall dry grass, green-brown field texture, small dark birds, blue facial markings, black frame edges, and soft handheld focus.
Film character: The 8mm scan has coarse grain, muted color, slight blur, visible gate edges, and uneven exposure that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife cutaway, natural-history insert, rural transition, or quiet memory beat within a Lagos or West African travel sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers a brief home-movie view of birds in a grassy outdoor setting in Lagos, without visible buildings, people, or identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, source ownership, and species or location identification should still be checked before use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1969 Lagos 8mm wildlife, Nigeria home movie guinea fowl, West African birds in tall grass, and vintage nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Lagos 1969 material, then broader 1960s Nigerian wildlife or grassland cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Lagos home-movie frame showing tall grass with a small guinea fowl-like bird partly obscured near the left side. — A small bird is barely visible among tall grasses in soft 8mm focus.

Soft 8mm frame from the Lagos clip showing tall grass and field texture, with no clearly visible people or structures. — Tall grasses fill the frame as the handheld camera holds on the field.

1969 Lagos frame showing several guinea fowl-like birds moving through dense grass, partly hidden by the vegetation. — A small group of birds moves in a loose line through the grass.

1969 Lagos home-movie frame showing two guinea fowl-like birds with blue facial markings among tall grass. — Two birds are more clearly visible as they move through the grassy field.

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