Lagos Nigeria-1969: Grey Large Elephant Grazing In The Field Of Tall Grass

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Grey Large Elephant Grazing In The Field Of Tall Grass — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, in 1969 shows a large grey African elephant with prominent white tusks walking through a sunlit field of tall green grass. The elephant moves steadily from left to right, its trunk swaying and occasionally curling. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and natural outdoor lighting, capturing a serene moment in the wild. The shot is framed with dark borders, typical of old home movie projectors, enhancing its nostalgic, archival quality.

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: 122665305

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

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s archival requests needing African wildlife, safari-era travel material, or nonhuman nature cutaways from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, soft exposure, dark frame edges, and metadata-supported 1969 Lagos setting place the material in a late-1960s travel-film context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor-shot perspective, observing the elephant at a distance as it walks through tall grass without visible crew, people, or narration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large grey elephant, long white tusks, a swinging trunk, tall green grass, a low tree line, pale sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, slight softness, warm color, gate edges, and contact-print framing that give it a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, transition within African location material, or quiet nonhuman observational beat.
Historical context: The frames show a large tusked elephant in open grassland, supporting broad visual context for wildlife observation connected to the metadata-listed Lagos, Nigeria trip.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location or wildlife-use requirements separately.
Research search match: Search phrases include 1969 Lagos Nigeria 8mm elephant, vintage African wildlife home movie, tusked elephant in tall grass, and 1960s travel footage animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Lagos or Nigeria 1969 travel clips, then broader 1960s African wildlife and grassland scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing a large grey elephant with white tusks moving through tall grass. — A tusked elephant moves through a grassy field in vintage 8mm footage.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria home-movie frame with a tusked elephant walking rightward through green grass. — The elephant continues across the field with its trunk lifted slightly.

A grainy profile view shows the elephant framed by grass and sky.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria frame showing the elephant near the right side of the shot with tusks and trunk visible. — The elephant remains in view as the short wildlife shot ends.

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