Lagos Nigeria-1969: Elephant Silhouetted at Sunset

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

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Elephant Silhouetted at Sunset — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, in 1969 captures a majestic African elephant walking through a sun-drenched savanna. The elephant, silhouetted against a dramatic purple and white sky, moves slowly across the grassy plain, its large tusks clearly visible. Sparse acacia trees dot the landscape, and the film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and darkened borders, evoking a strong sense of nostalgia and archival authenticity. This authentic wildlife moment offers a rare glimpse of nature in the late 1960s.

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: 122664933

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s wildlife archive requests needing 8mm African savanna footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial cutaways.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, handheld framing, heavy borders, and 1969 metadata support a late-1960s home-movie view of an elephant in open grassland near Lagos, Nigeria.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a visitor-shot wildlife moment, holding on the elephant as it moves slowly through tall grass rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tusked elephant, tall savanna grass, scattered trees, a low horizon, clouded purple-white sky, dark frame edges, and film gate shadows.
Film character: Soft focus, dense grain, exposure falloff, color shift, and dark rounded borders give the footage a physical 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, transitional landscape beat, or period visual reference for African safari material.
Historical context: The frames show an elephant moving through open grassland with sparse trees, offering visual context for late-1960s amateur wildlife travel footage without broader claims.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, source ownership, location certainty, and wildlife-context claims should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 8mm Nigeria wildlife footage, elephant walking in savanna, African home movie safari, and vintage animal archive clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Lagos or Nigeria 1969 footage, then broader 1960s African wildlife and savanna travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 8mm footage near Lagos, Nigeria, showing a tusked elephant crossing tall savanna grass under a pale clouded sky. — A tusked elephant moves through tall grass with sparse trees and a bright clouded sky behind it.

The elephant appears in profile, its tusks catching light as it walks past scattered trees.

Late-1960s 8mm frame showing a partly silhouetted elephant in tall savanna grass near sparse trees, supported by Lagos, Nigeria metadata. — A darker, grainy frame shows the elephant moving left to right through grass near a small stand of trees.

1969 8mm wildlife frame near Lagos, Nigeria, with a tusked elephant crossing open grassland below a bright clouded sky. — The elephant continues across the grassland, framed by dark film borders and a high, cloud-filled sky.

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