Lagos Nigeria-1969: Peacock and Buffalo in Savanna Landscape

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

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Peacock and Buffalo in Savanna Landscape — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, in 1969 captures a serene African savanna scene. The grainy, color-bleached film shows tall green grass swaying gently as a peacock with iridescent blue and green plumage walks through the field. The scene transitions to two large buffalo standing in the open plain, their dark silhouettes contrasting against a pale blue sky and distant hills. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics with natural motion, film grain, and a nostalgic, authentic feel. This archival clip offers a peaceful glimpse into wildlife and landscape from a bygone era, perfect for historical documentaries, nature projects, or retro-themed content.

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: 122664529

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 footage from Nigeria for documentary inserts, nature history sequences, or archival cutaways needing African savanna animals without people visible.
Period detail: The frames show color home-movie film with buffalo in tall grass, distant low hills, and exposure shifts that may show 1960s amateur travel filming conditions.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a brief unstaged observer perspective, with the camera holding on animals in open grassland rather than arranging a formal wildlife shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tall grass, dark buffalo, pale sky, distant hills, a low scrub line, frame borders, and soft handheld 8mm exposure.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, muted color, soft focus, uneven exposure, and contact-frame borders that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife cutaway, location transition, or quiet memory beat within a 1960s Nigeria or African travel sequence.
Historical context: The visuals provide a home-movie record of savanna wildlife and landscape associated with the Lagos, Nigeria, 1969 metadata, without showing people or built landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but wildlife identification, location, copyright status, and any contextual claims should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1960s Nigeria 8mm wildlife, Lagos Nigeria home movie buffalo, African savanna archival footage, and vintage travel film animals.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Lagos or Nigeria 1969 material, then broader 1960s African wildlife or travel home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

Soft 8mm frame from the Lagos, Nigeria, 1969 clip showing blurred green grass and heavy film-edge shadowing. — Blurred grass and film-edge shadowing open the short wildlife clip.

1969 Nigeria home-movie frame showing two buffalo in tall savanna grass, with low hills and pale blue sky behind them. — Two buffalo stand in open grassland with a low hill line in the distance.

The camera holds on two buffalo standing apart in the tall grass.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria clip frame showing two dark buffalo in tall grass, backed by distant hills and a soft pale sky. — Two buffalo remain in the grass as the landscape recedes into low hills.

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