Lagos Nigeria-1969: African Buffalo Walking Through Grassland

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

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African Buffalo Walking Through Grassland — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, 1969, showing a large African buffalo with prominent horns walking and turning in a sunlit grassland savanna. The animal moves through tall green grass under a pale blue sky, with distant hills and scattered trees in the background. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight motion blur, and natural color fading typical of 1960s amateur footage. The shot is framed with dark borders, suggesting viewing through a projector or original film gate. This authentic archival clip captures wildlife in its natural habitat with a nostalgic, documentary feel.

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: 122664665

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$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: 1960s 8mm wildlife footage for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing an archival view of African buffalo in grassland.
Period detail: The color fading, soft focus, black film-gate borders, and 8mm home-movie framing support the stated 1969 period, while the landscape itself is not date-specific.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of an unstaged visitor or safari observation, with the camera holding on a buffalo as it moves through tall grass.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a horned buffalo, tall green grass, pale blue sky, distant low hills, scattered trees, dark film borders, and film specks.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, mild blur from animal movement, softened color, uneven exposure, and dark gate edges that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife insert, safari cutaway, landscape transition, or brief memory beat within a sequence about African travel or animals.
Historical context: The frames show a buffalo in open grassland near distant hills and trees, offering visual context for wildlife observation without supporting broader claims about place or events.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are indicated, but animal-location identification and any copyright or collection permissions should still be verified separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Nigeria 8mm buffalo, African buffalo savanna home movie, vintage safari wildlife footage, and horned animal in grassland.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other Lagos or Nigeria 1969 material, and then with broader 1960s wildlife or safari home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 8mm footage frame of a horned buffalo in tall grass near distant hills, with visible film grain and gate borders. — A horned buffalo stands in a sunlit grassland with low hills in the background.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing a buffalo moving through tall savanna grass under a pale sky. — The buffalo moves away through grass, creating soft motion blur in the home-movie frame.

Rear view of a buffalo walking through grass in 1969 archival 8mm footage from Lagos, Nigeria, with distant hills beyond. — A rear view shows the buffalo continuing through the grassland toward the open landscape.

The buffalo is seen in profile among tall grass, with hills and trees across the horizon.

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