Lagos Nigeria-1969: A Canvas Covered Truck Drives Down A Dirt Roadway With

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationLagos, Nigeria
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Nigeria

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A Canvas Covered Truck Drives Down A Dirt Roadway With — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Lagos, Nigeria, in 1969 captures a canvas-covered truck driving down a dusty dirt road through open grassland. The rear view shows the truck moving away, with several people riding on top of the cargo. The scene is framed by dark borders, characteristic of home movie film, with a distinct purple-tinted sky and natural daylight. The truck features red and white striped reflectors and a yellow license plate. The landscape is flat with scattered trees, evoking a rural African setting. The film exhibits natural grain and color saturation typical of 1960s Super 8 footage.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122665474

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1969 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Lagos, Nigeria Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing 1960s 8mm Nigerian road travel, rural transport, or vehicle movement as an editorial insert in documentary or historical productions.
Period detail: The canvas-covered truck, open dirt roadway, yellow rear plate, and saturated 8mm color may show late-1960s rural transport conditions near Lagos, as supported by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged roadside or following-vehicle perspective, watching a truck recede with people riding high on the covered cargo area.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a canvas-covered truck, people seated on top, a reddish dirt road, open grassland, scattered trees, a purple-tinted sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm home-movie texture with visible grain, soft focus, saturated color, slight exposure variation, and contact-frame borders.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel cutaway, rural transport insert, transition beat, or memory fragment within a sequence about 1960s Nigeria or road movement.
Historical context: The scene visually situates motor transport on an unpaved road through open grassland, with passengers visible on the vehicle rather than inside a formal cabin.
Research note: People are visible at a distance and possible vehicle markings or plate details appear, so likeness, brand or registration review may be needed separate from copyright status.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 Lagos 8mm truck on dirt road, Nigeria home movie road travel, canvas-covered lorry grassland, or African rural transport footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Nigerian travel shots, then Lagos or Nigeria 1969 material, then broader 1960s road transport and rural landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing a canvas-covered truck receding on an unpaved road with people riding on top. — A covered truck moves away along a reddish dirt road bordered by open grassland.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame of a canvas-covered truck moving away on a rural dirt road under a purple-tinted sky. — The truck continues down the unpaved road, framed by grassland and a tree at right.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame with the rear of a canvas-covered truck small in the distance on a dirt road. — The vehicle grows smaller as it travels through the open roadside landscape.

1969 Lagos, Nigeria 8mm frame showing the covered truck farther away on the reddish road through flat grassland. — The truck recedes toward the horizon on the dusty roadway, with scattered trees in the background.

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