Lagos Nigeria-1969: Large Elephant Roaming In Open Green Grassy Field

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

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Large Elephant Roaming In Open Green Grassy Field — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, 1969, showing a large African elephant with prominent tusks walking through an open grassy savanna. The elephant moves steadily across the frame, its dark gray form contrasting against the green field and a dramatic purple-tinged sky with scattered clouds. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and natural vignetting, capturing a nostalgic moment of wildlife in its natural habitat. This authentic archival clip offers a rare glimpse of African wildlife from the late 1960s, perfect for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 122665042

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 African wildlife archive requests needing a brief 8mm insert of an elephant moving through open grassland near Lagos, Nigeria.
Period detail: The 8mm color, soft exposure, rounded frame edges, and metadata-supported 1969 date place the clip in late-1960s home-movie wildlife filming.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds a simple observational view as the elephant passes, giving the footage the unstaged feel of a traveler or family visitor recording wildlife at a distance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tusked elephant, tall green grass, open horizon, scattered trees, clouded sky, dark frame borders, and slight handheld framing.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, faded color, purple sky cast, vignetting, and exposure shifts that read as physical-film texture from a scanned home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife cutaway, geographic transition, travel-memory beat, or short archival insert within a sequence about African landscapes or animals.
Historical context: The footage shows a large elephant in open grassland and reflects private late-1960s wildlife filming without making claims about a specific reserve or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status, location claims, and any required wildlife or collection permissions.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 8mm Nigeria elephant footage, African wildlife home movie, tusked elephant in grassland, and vintage Lagos wildlife film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Lagos or Nigeria 1969 material, then broader 1960s African wildlife and travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing a tusked elephant in tall grass, partly silhouetted against a clouded sky. — A tusked elephant is seen in profile across a grassy field, with trees and clouds behind it.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame of a large elephant with visible tusks moving through open green grassland. — The elephant moves across the field, its tusks and dark body visible against the pale sky.

A side view shows the elephant stepping through grass with a bright, cloud-filled sky above.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame of a tusked elephant crossing grassland, framed by dark scan borders. — The elephant continues across the grassland, with its tusks visible near the right side of the frame.

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