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Lagos Nigeria-1969: A Giraffe Standing In A Field Surrounded By Trees

  • Year1969
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationLagos, Nigeria
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1969 Nigeria
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A Giraffe Standing In A Field Surrounded By Trees — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Lagos, Nigeria, in 1969 captures a giraffe standing tall in a sunlit savanna. The animal, with its distinctive spotted coat, is partially obscured by dense green acacia trees and shrubs, its long neck rising above the foliage. The scene unfolds under a pale lavender sky, with the camera maintaining a steady, observational perspective. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and soft focus typical of 1960s amateur Super 8 footage, offering a nostalgic glimpse of African 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
122665424

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1960s archive requests needing brief wildlife home-movie material from Nigeria for documentary, educational, or contextual nature sequences.
Period detail
The soft 8mm color, contact-frame framing, and dated metadata support a late-1960s amateur travel-film context, though no visible landmark confirms the exact location.
Home-movie behavior
The clip has a visitor-shot observational quality, holding on a distant giraffe partly hidden by brush rather than staging or approaching the animal.
What appears in frame
A giraffe stands among dense green shrubs and trees, with open grassland, a low tree line, pale sky, dark film borders, and visible frame divisions.
Film character
The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, mild color fading, uneven exposure, and slight handheld steadiness that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role
Editors could use it as a short wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, or quiet transition within sequences about African landscapes or amateur safari footage.
Historical context
The scene visually documents a giraffe in a scrubby savanna setting as captured by an amateur camera, without showing people, buildings, or identifiable public events.
Research note
No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright and source permissions should still be checked separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match
Searches such as 1969 Nigeria 8mm giraffe, vintage African wildlife home movie, Super 8 safari animal, and giraffe in savanna brush may match this clip.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other Lagos or Nigeria 1969 clips, and then with broader vintage African wildlife or travel-home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing a giraffe partly obscured by trees and brush beneath a pale sky.
A giraffe stands among shrubs and low trees in a distant savanna view.
1969 Nigeria 8mm frame with a giraffe visible behind dark green foliage in a grassy savanna setting.
The giraffe remains partly covered by trees, with its long neck clear above the foliage.
1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing a giraffe in soft focus among shrubs, grass, and distant low trees.
A soft-focus home-movie frame holds on the giraffe amid thick vegetation.
1969 Nigeria 8mm frame of a giraffe standing in brushy savanna, framed by dark film edges and muted color.
The final frame keeps the giraffe centered behind dark shrubs and open grassland.

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