Lagos Nigeria-1969: Elephant In An Open Grass Field Walking Swinging Its Trunk

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

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Elephant In An Open Grass Field Walking Swinging Its Trunk — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, in 1969 captures a massive elephant walking through an open grassland savanna. The elephant, silhouetted against a dramatic cloudy sky, swings its trunk and moves steadily across the field. Sparse acacia trees dot the landscape under a purple-tinged sky, with the film's characteristic grain and color fading typical of 1960s Super 8 footage. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic 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: 122664852

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 suited to documentary inserts, archive research reels, museum education sequences, or period travel material needing an elephant in open grassland.
Period detail: The soft color, heavy grain, handheld framing, and 8mm source support a late-1960s home-movie context, while the open grassland and scattered trees match the supplied Nigeria location metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, observing the elephant from a fixed or lightly handheld distance without staging, narration, or visible human interaction.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large elephant with tusks, tall grass, scattered flat-topped trees, a low horizon, cloudy sky, dark frame edges, and pronounced film grain.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm archival texture through soft focus, muted purple-blue sky tones, uneven exposure, gate edges, and visible grain from the original film scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife cutaway, travel-reel insert, atmospheric transition, or memory beat within sequences about African landscapes or archival animal footage.
Historical context: The scene visually places a lone elephant in open grassland under a broad sky, offering wildlife and landscape context without showing people, buildings, roads, or identifiable landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, source permissions, and any location or wildlife-use requirements should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1969 Nigeria 8mm elephant footage, Lagos home movie wildlife, vintage African savanna elephant, and Super 8 elephant walking in grassland.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1969 Lagos or Nigeria material, then broader vintage wildlife, savanna, elephant, or travel home-movie clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing a tusked elephant in an open grass field, silhouetted against scattered trees and a cloudy sky. — A tusked elephant stands in tall grass beneath a cloudy sky, with sparse trees along the horizon.

The elephant moves in profile through the grass, with its trunk lowered and trees behind it.

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing a dark elephant silhouette walking through tall grass, with scattered trees and a cloudy horizon behind it. — A silhouetted elephant crosses the field, partly obscured by tall grass and soft 8mm exposure.

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing a tusked elephant near sparse trees, its body dark against an open grassy field and cloudy sky. — The elephant nears the edge of frame, its tusk catching light against the darker body and grass.

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