Lagos Nigeria-1969: Buffalo Walking In The Pasture Shaking Its Head In A Large

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

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Buffalo Walking In The Pasture Shaking Its Head In A Large — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, 1969, showing a large buffalo walking through a grassy savanna field. The animal moves steadily across the frame, its dark silhouette contrasting against the bright green grass and distant hills under a clear blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: noticeable grain, slight color fading, and natural camera shake, capturing a candid moment of wildlife in its natural habitat. The scene evokes a sense of nostalgia and historical documentation of African fauna.

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: 122664693

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 useful for documentary or educational sequences needing an archival view of a buffalo moving through grassland near Lagos, Nigeria.
Period detail: The frame may show a late-1960s home-movie wildlife stop, with no visible buildings, vehicles, signage, or landmarks to further date the scene beyond the supplied 1969 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld framing and brief, observational camera movement suggest an unstaged visitor-shot record of an animal encountered in open pasture or savanna grass.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark horned buffalo, tall green grass, low distant hills, blue sky, open pasture, and vertical film-frame borders from the contact sheet.
Film character: The clip carries an 8mm home-movie look with soft focus, visible grain, color fading, slight exposure variation, and handheld instability.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, or transitional beat in a sequence about Nigerian landscape, animals, or 1960s amateur travel footage.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a buffalo in open grassland but does not by itself identify a reserve, exact site, event, or conservation context.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, archive license terms, and species or location identification should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1969 Lagos Nigeria 8mm buffalo footage, vintage African wildlife home movie, and horned buffalo walking in grassland.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Lagos or Nigeria 1969 material, and finally broader 1960s wildlife or grassland travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing a dark horned buffalo in tall grass, with low hills and blue sky in the background. — A buffalo moves across open grassland beneath a clear sky.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing a horned buffalo standing or walking in tall grass with distant hills behind it. — The buffalo turns toward the camera while standing in tall grass.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame with motion-blurred buffalo in grass and another dark animal partly visible at the right edge. — Motion blur catches the buffalo moving through the pasture.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing a blurred buffalo in green grass, with a second animal only partly in frame. — A buffalo passes through the grass as another animal remains partly outside the frame.

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