Nigeria-1969: Two Spotted Hyenas Resting in Green Grass

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationNigeria
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Nigeria

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Two Spotted Hyenas Resting in Green Grass — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures two spotted hyenas resting in tall green grass on a savanna. The animals, with their distinctive mottled coats, lie curled together in the grassy field, one looking alert while the other appears to be resting. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight color fading, and natural camera movement, offering a rare glimpse of African wildlife in its natural habitat. This archival clip provides authentic, unscripted wildlife footage from Nigeria, perfect for historical documentaries, nature projects, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127562724

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 8mm wildlife footage suited to archival requests for African savanna animals, natural-history inserts, or period home-movie travel material.
Period detail: The frames show soft 8mm color, rounded frame edges, and handheld wildlife filming that support the supplied 1969 home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational value of an unstaged traveler or amateur naturalist pausing on resting hyenas rather than composing a studio wildlife scene.
What appears in frame: Two spotted hyenas, tall green grass, mottled coats, dark frame edges, soft focus, and slight shifts in the animals' head positions are visible.
Film character: Visible grain, muted green color, gentle exposure variation, and handheld framing give the footage a physical 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, a quiet insert in an African travel sequence, or a transitional beat between broader savanna scenes.
Historical context: The clip visually documents spotted hyenas resting in grassy habitat within the supplied Nigeria 1969 home-movie record, without identifiable people or built landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still verify copyright, source permissions, and wildlife-use context for the intended production.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1969 Nigeria 8mm wildlife footage, spotted hyenas in grass, vintage African safari home movie, or savanna animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other Nigeria 1969 footage, and then broader vintage African wildlife or savanna animal material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two spotted hyenas rest close together in tall green grass in the supplied Nigeria 1969 8mm home-movie footage. — Two spotted hyenas lie together in grass, one head raised and alert.

Two spotted hyenas remain low in tall grass, one facing toward the camera in the 1969 Nigeria archival footage. — The pair remains partly hidden by grass as one hyena looks toward camera.

A spotted hyena lies side-on in tall grass, with another animal mostly obscured, in the Nigeria 1969 8mm wildlife clip. — One hyena turns side-on while resting in the grass.

A spotted hyena appears partly hidden among tall green grass in the supplied 1969 Nigeria home-movie frame. — A hyena is mostly concealed by the surrounding grass.

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