Nigeria-1969: In Focus – A Hyena On A Grass

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationNigeria
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Nigeria

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In Focus – A Hyena On A Grass — Clip Details

A young hyena peeks through tall grass in a sun-drenched savanna, its alert ears and dark eyes visible in this 8mm home movie from Nigeria in 1969. Shot on vintage Super 8 film, the footage captures the animal in its natural habitat with authentic grain, slight focus shifts, and warm color tones typical of 1960s home recordings. The hyena remains mostly still, observing its surroundings, offering a rare glimpse of wildlife in the wild. This archival clip provides authentic, unscripted footage ideal for documentaries, nature projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 127562754

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: Useful for 1960s Nigeria wildlife or travel-documentary requests needing brief, observational 8mm footage of a hyena in tall grass.
Period detail: The frames show period home-movie wildlife filming, with the 1969 Nigeria context supported by clip metadata rather than visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged field-observation quality, holding on a mostly still animal partly hidden by grass.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a hyena's face and ears, tall savanna grass, soft green-brown vegetation, dark film borders, and slight framing variation.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, muted color, exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing that reinforce its physical-film origin.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, or quiet transition within a sequence about animals, field travel, or archival Nigeria footage.
Historical context: The clip documents a brief wildlife encounter as seen through a home-movie camera, without visible people, buildings, or identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but copyright, source ownership, and wildlife-context use should still be reviewed before licensing.
Research search match: Search matches include 1969 Nigeria 8mm wildlife footage, hyena in tall grass home movie, vintage savanna animal clip, and Super 8 African wildlife.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Nigeria 1969 travel material, then related vintage wildlife or savanna animal clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

A hyena peers from tall grass in archival 1969 Nigeria home-movie footage, with dark film borders and soft focus. — A hyena's face and ears appear through dense grass in a soft vintage frame.

The hyena remains low in tall grass in a 1969 Nigeria 8mm frame, facing the camera amid muted vegetation. — The animal stays nearly still, its face visible between strands of grass.

A low, partially obscured hyena is visible in tall grass in this archival home-movie frame from Nigeria in 1969. — The hyena is partly concealed by the surrounding grass and brush.

The hyena looks toward the camera from tall grass, captured in soft, grainy 8mm footage from 1969 Nigeria. — The final frame holds on the hyena peering out from the vegetation.

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