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Lagos Nigeria-1969: View Of Elephant Walking In Grass Field On Clear Sunny Day

  • Year1969
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationLagos, Nigeria
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1969 Nigeria
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View Of Elephant Walking In Grass Field On Clear Sunny Day — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, 1969, showing a large African elephant with prominent white tusks walking through a sunlit grassy field. The elephant moves steadily from left to right across the frame, its massive form filling the view against a backdrop of green savanna and scattered trees under a bright blue sky with soft white clouds. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: warm color palette, slight grain, and natural motion, capturing a serene moment of wildlife in its natural habitat. The shot appears to be filmed from a vehicle, with dark frame edges visible, enhancing the authentic home movie feel. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of 1960s wildlife documentation, perfect for historical, educational, or documentary projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details
Exterior
Resolution
4K Digitally Restored
License
Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
122665198

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

  • animals
  • nature
  • outdoors
  • weather
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  • elephant
  • walking
  • grass
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  • clear
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  • day
  • nigeria
  • 1969
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  • vintage 8mm film
  • Super 8 wildlife
  • African elephant walking
  • safari footage 1960s
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  • retro home movie
  • 1960s nature film
  • classic wildlife documentary
  • Nigerian wildlife history
  • vintage safari footage
  • 8mm elephant
  • African savanna
  • vintage film grain
  • nostalgic wildlife
  • old film footage
  • historical animal footage
  • 1960s home movie
  • vintage nature film

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
1960s 8mm wildlife footage useful for documentary or educational requests needing an archival view of an African elephant in a grassy outdoor setting.
Period detail
The 8mm color stock, soft exposure, and contact-frame edges support the supplied 1969 home-movie dating, while the landscape itself offers few specific period markers.
Home-movie behavior
The shot has a visitor-recorded feel, likely filmed from behind a window or vehicle opening as the elephant walks past without staged action.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a large tusked elephant, tall green grass, scattered trees, blue sky, white clouds, dark frame borders, and soft 8mm image texture.
Film character
The clip shows warm color, visible grain, slight softness, and uneven framing that read as physical home-movie film texture from a brief handheld wildlife shot.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, or quiet transition within a sequence about 1960s travel, nature viewing, or archival animal footage.
Historical context
The footage visually records a close view of an elephant in open grassland, but the frames do not identify a park, reserve, or exact site beyond the supplied Lagos, Nigeria metadata.
Research note
No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still verify copyright status and any location or wildlife-use requirements for their project.
Research search match
Likely matches searches for 1969 Nigeria 8mm elephant footage, African elephant walking in grass, vintage wildlife home movie, and 1960s outdoor animal footage.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Lagos or Nigeria footage from 1969, then with broader 1960s wildlife or travel home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Lagos, Nigeria home-movie frame showing a tusked elephant in tall grass with trees and sky behind it.
A large tusked elephant stands in sunlit grass with dark film-frame borders visible.
1969 Lagos, Nigeria frame of an African elephant moving through grass beneath a partly cloudy blue sky.
The elephant advances across the grass, its white tusks catching the light.
1969 Lagos, Nigeria home-movie still with a tusked elephant close to the camera in a grassy outdoor setting.
A close frame shows the elephant’s head, ear, tusks, and front legs in tall grass.
1969 Lagos, Nigeria frame showing the elephant continuing rightward across a sunlit grassy field.
The elephant moves rightward through the field, filling much of the frame.

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