Lagos Nigeria-1969: Two African Buffalo in Grass Field

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

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Two African Buffalo in Grass Field — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, in 1969 captures two African buffalo standing in a grassy savanna field. The animals, with their dark hides and curved horns, are framed against a backdrop of rolling hills under a pale sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural color saturation with a slight blue cast, and visible grain. The camera remains steady, offering a candid wildlife observation from a safari or expedition. This authentic archival clip evokes a sense of mid-century exploration and natural history.

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: 122664623

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: Useful for 1960s archival wildlife requests needing brief African savanna animal footage for documentary, education, or natural history context.
Period detail: The frames may show 1969 8mm travel or safari footage, with soft color, visible frame edges, and a simple field observation rather than staged wildlife filming.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, holding steadily on two buffalo in tall grass without narration, people, or visible staging.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two dark-hided buffalo, curved horns, tall grass, low rolling hills, a pale cloudy sky, and 8mm contact-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has a scanned 8mm look with soft focus, modest grain, uneven exposure, slight blue cast, and dark frame bars from the physical film strip.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a short wildlife insert, geographic cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition within a sequence about African landscapes.
Historical context: The scene documents a mid-century home-movie view of wildlife in open grassland, but the exact reserve, expedition, and filming circumstances are not visible.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, though copyright status and any location-based permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 Nigeria 8mm wildlife footage, African buffalo in grassland, vintage safari home movie, and archival savanna animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby reel footage, then other Lagos or Nigeria 1969 material, then broader 1960s African wildlife and grassland travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two African buffalo stand in a grassy field in 1969 Nigeria footage, with low hills and a pale sky in the background. — Two buffalo pause in tall grass before distant hills.

Two dark buffalo with curved horns stand in tall grass in 1969 Nigeria archival home-movie footage. — Buffalo stand nearly front-facing in a grassy savanna view.

Two buffalo appear in tall grass, one partly turned, in soft 8mm footage from the Nigeria clip metadata. — One buffalo turns as the pair remains in the grass.

Two African buffalo remain in a grassy field, framed by distant hills and visible 8mm film borders. — The buffalo pair remains framed against grassland and hills.

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