Nigeria-1969: Lion Stalking Through Tall Grass

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationNigeria
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Nigeria

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Lion Stalking Through Tall Grass — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a lion partially hidden in tall grass, its tawny mane and spotted coat blending into the savanna. The animal moves slowly through the dense vegetation, its form camouflaged and partially obscured by the swaying grass. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and natural lighting, conveying a sense of quiet tension and wild observation. This archival clip offers authentic wildlife footage from Nigeria, ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127562833

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: 1960s Nigerian 8mm wildlife footage suited to documentary cutaways, archive inserts, and nature-history sequences needing a lion partly hidden in tall grass.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly the 8mm color stock, soft focus, and handheld wildlife framing, which may show a late-1960s amateur safari or field observation perspective.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the patient, observational feel of a home-movie camera held at a distance while the animal moves through grass without staged action.
What appears in frame: The frames show a tawny-maned lion, dense tall grass, soft green-brown savanna vegetation, dark film-frame borders, and slight handheld variation.
Film character: Warm color, visible grain, soft exposure, gate edges, and handheld framing give the footage a physical 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife insert, tension-building cutaway, transition into African savanna material, or memory beat within travel footage.
Historical context: The scene documents a lion observed in grassland vegetation in Nigeria, with no visible people, vehicles, signs, or built environment in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright status, source permissions, and wildlife-location context before use.
Research search match: Useful matches include 1969 Nigeria 8mm lion footage, vintage home movie African wildlife, lion in tall grass, and archival savanna animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Nigeria 1969 material, then broader 1960s African wildlife or safari home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing a lion partly hidden in tall grass, with its mane and body blending into the vegetation. — A lion is barely visible as it moves through dense grass.

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame of a lion crossing through dense savanna grass, partially camouflaged by vegetation. — The lion’s body is partly masked by grass as it moves across the frame.

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing the lion lower in the grass, with the animal’s outline softened by foreground vegetation. — The lion remains partly concealed in the tall grass.

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame of a lion partly obscured in grass, seen through a soft, grainy home-movie scan. — The lion is camouflaged among the grass near the end of the shot.

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