Nigeria-1969: Hyena Cubs Playing in Green Grass

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationNigeria
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Nigeria

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Hyena Cubs Playing in Green Grass — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a pair of hyena cubs in a sunlit grassy field in Nigeria. The cubs, with their distinctive spotted coats, play and interact closely in the green grass under a clear sky. One cub stands alert while the other moves around, showcasing natural wildlife behavior. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, nature projects, or nostalgic content about African wildlife.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127562672

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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 (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: 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

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: 1960s Nigerian 8mm wildlife footage for documentary inserts, natural-history cutaways, or archive sequences needing young hyenas in grassland.
Period detail: The period detail comes mainly from the 8mm source, 1969 metadata, soft color, visible grain, and handheld framing rather than identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot wildlife perspective, observing two hyena cubs at a distance without staged action or visible human direction.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two spotted hyena cubs, green grass, open field, soft focus, dark frame edges, and a four-frame contact-sheet layout.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, muted green color, slight blur, uneven exposure, and handheld telephoto framing that give it physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief wildlife insert, a transition into African grassland material, or a quiet cutaway for young animal behavior.
Historical context: The scene documents hyena cubs in a Nigerian outdoor setting as recorded by a home-movie camera, without visible people, buildings, or infrastructure.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still verify source copyright, species identification, and location metadata for their use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Nigeria 8mm hyena cubs, vintage African wildlife home movie, spotted hyena young in grass, and archival grassland animals.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other footage from the same reel, then with Nigeria 1969 material, then with broader vintage African wildlife or grassland animal clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 8mm footage from Nigeria showing two hyena cubs close together in a grassy field, one alert and one bent down. — Two hyena cubs stand and move close together in tall green grass.

A hyena cub faces the camera in Nigerian grassland footage while a second cub bends down in front of it. — One cub looks outward as the second cub lowers its head in the grass.

The two hyena cubs appear low to the ground in a grassy Nigerian field, partly obscured by vegetation. — Both cubs lower their heads as they move through the grass.

A hyena cub moves across the grassy field in 1969 Nigerian 8mm footage, with another cub faintly visible nearby. — A cub moves side-on through the grass near the end of the brief shot.

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