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Lagos Nigeria-1969: Elephant Roaming In Savanna With Tusks

  • Year1969
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationLagos, Nigeria
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1969 Nigeria
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Elephant Roaming In Savanna With Tusks — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film from Lagos, Nigeria, in 1969 captures a large African elephant in a grassy savanna under a cloudy sky. The elephant, with prominent white tusks, initially stands calmly before moving across the field, its motion creating slight blur in the footage. The camera follows the animal, capturing its powerful form and natural behavior in a classic home movie style. The film exhibits characteristic grain, color fading, and edge vignetting, offering authentic archival footage of wildlife in its natural habitat.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution
4K Digitally Restored
License
Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
122665171

Rights & Clearance

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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location
Lagos, Nigeria Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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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Topics & Keywords

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Supports 1960s editorial requests for archival wildlife footage, especially brief documentary inserts showing an African elephant in open grassland.
Period detail
The frames show 8mm home-movie color, rounded frame edges, soft focus, and fading consistent with the supplied 1969 source metadata.
Home-movie behavior
The clip carries an unstaged visitor-shot perspective as the handheld camera watches and follows an elephant moving through tall grass.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a tusked elephant, open savanna grass, cloudy sky, distant low trees, handheld framing, motion blur, and dark film-edge borders.
Film character
The footage has coarse grain, faded color, uneven exposure, vignetting, gate edges, and handheld softness that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role
An editor could use it as a wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, transition beat, or brief visual reference for archival African nature footage.
Historical context
The scene places a lone elephant in open grassland under a broad sky, offering visual context for mid-century travel or wildlife observation without identifying a specific reserve.
Research note
No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any wildlife-location or collection restrictions separately.
Research search match
Relevant searches include 1969 8mm Nigeria elephant footage, vintage African wildlife home movie, tusked elephant in savanna, and archival travel film nature insert.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with the same reel, then other Lagos or Nigeria 1969 material, then broader 1960s African wildlife and travel home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A tusked elephant stands in open grassland in archival 1969 Nigeria 8mm footage, with clouds and distant trees behind it.
Elephant pauses side-on in tall savanna grass under a clouded sky.
The elephant moves through open grassland, blurred by motion and handheld 8mm filming in the supplied 1969 Nigeria clip.
Motion-blurred elephant crosses the field as the camera follows.
A tusked elephant faces toward the camera in open grassland, framed by soft 8mm color and a cloudy sky.
Elephant faces the camera from the grassland, ears spread and tusks visible.
A closer handheld view shows the tusked elephant moving through tall grass in the archival Nigeria wildlife footage.
Closer view of the elephant walking through tall grass with tusks visible.

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