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Lagos Nigeria-1969: A Giraffe Eating And Moving Around In Some Bushes In Its Natural Habitat

  • Year1969
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationLagos, Nigeria
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1969 Nigeria
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A Giraffe Eating And Moving Around In Some Bushes In Its... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, in 1969 captures a giraffe browsing through dense green acacia bushes in the African savanna. The animal moves slowly, its long neck extending to reach leaves, with a dry, open landscape stretching into the background under a pale sky. The film exhibits characteristic grain, slight color fading, and dark vertical borders typical of Super 8 footage. The clip offers a rare, authentic glimpse of wildlife in its natural habitat, evoking a sense of nostalgia and historical documentation.

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
122665371

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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  • bush scenery
  • nostalgic film
  • documentary footage

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
1960s 8mm wildlife footage useful for documentary inserts, education sequences, or archive-led scenes needing a giraffe browsing in scrubland.
Period detail
The frames show 8mm color home-movie texture, dark film borders, and a savanna setting; the 1969 Lagos, Nigeria identification is supported by supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior
The clip has an observational home-movie feel, with a distant handheld view tracking a giraffe as it feeds among bushes rather than a staged wildlife setup.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a giraffe, dense green shrubs, open dry grassland, a pale sky, distant tree line, dark film borders, and soft handheld framing.
Film character
The footage carries 8mm grain, slight color fading, soft focus, uneven exposure, and vertical frame borders that signal original small-gauge film capture.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, period nature insert, travel-memory beat, or transition from human travel footage to landscape context.
Historical context
The clip visually places wildlife browsing within open scrubland and may support broader sequences about travel, nature observation, or African landscapes in the late 1960s.
Research note
No people, faces, logos, music, or private property are visible, but users should still verify copyright, source rights, and location identification before publication.
Research search match
Useful for searches such as 1969 Nigeria 8mm wildlife footage, giraffe browsing bushes, African savanna home movie, and vintage nature travel film.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent reel material, then with other Lagos or Nigeria 1969 footage, then with vintage 8mm wildlife, savanna, or travel-observation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing a giraffe feeding in low green scrub with dry open grassland and pale sky in the background.
A giraffe feeds among shrubs in an open scrubland setting.
1969 Nigeria 8mm frame with a giraffe partly obscured by shrubs, set against open grassland and a pale sky.
The giraffe remains partly hidden by dense green shrubs.
1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing a giraffe moving through dense scrub, with foliage covering much of its body.
A giraffe moves through the bushes, partly obscured by leaves.
1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing empty scrubland, low bushes, dry grassland, pale sky, and dark film borders.
The frame settles on open scrubland after the giraffe has moved out of view.

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