Nigeria-1969: Hyena Resting in Tall Grass with Buffalo Herd

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationNigeria
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Nigeria

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Hyena Resting in Tall Grass with Buffalo Herd — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage footage captures a hyena resting in tall grass under a clear sky in Nigeria. The grainy, color-bleached images show the animal partially hidden in the dense vegetation, with a herd of buffalo visible in the background among scattered trees. The sequence offers a rare glimpse of African wildlife in its natural habitat, filmed with the characteristic look of a home movie from the late 1960s. The footage is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic projects exploring wildlife and travel from that era.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127562788

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1969 Nigeria wildlife footage for productions needing brief 8mm views of a hyena in tall grass and surrounding savanna vegetation.
Period detail: The 8mm color, soft focus, and faded palette support the late-1960s home-movie dating, with no visible signs, buildings, or landmarks to narrow the location further.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot wildlife perspective, holding briefly on an animal partly hidden in grass before drifting across trees and brush.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tall grass, a partially hidden hyena, scattered trees, thorny brush, open sky, dark frame edges, and soft handheld framing.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, color fading, soft exposure, gate edges, and slight handheld movement that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, or transition between broader scenes of Nigerian landscape and animal observation.
Historical context: The sequence documents a brief tourist or amateur view of African wildlife habitat without showing people, vehicles, settlements, or identifiable institutions.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but species identification, exact location, copyright status, and any underlying collection rights should be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1960s 8mm Nigeria wildlife, hyena in tall grass, African savanna home movie, and vintage animal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1969 Nigeria travel footage, and then with broader vintage African wildlife or savanna material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing a hyena or similar animal partly concealed in tall grass. — A hyena rests or watches from dense grass at the start of the short wildlife shot.

1969 Nigeria 8mm view of grassland vegetation, scattered trees, and brush after the animal is no longer clear. — The camera shifts away from the animal toward grass, brush, and trees in the landscape.

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame of brush, grass, and bare tree silhouettes in a softly focused wildlife landscape. — A handheld view passes across brush and tree silhouettes in the grassland setting.

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing tall grass, trees, and brush in a faded home-movie landscape. — The shot ends on vegetation and tree cover, with the wildlife subject no longer clearly visible.

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