Nigeria-1969: Scenes Of Lions In Tall Grassy Area Cubs Grouped Together On

Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationNigeria
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Nigeria

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Scenes Of Lions In Tall Grassy Area Cubs Grouped Together On — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures two lions resting in a tall, grassy savanna. The footage, likely from Nigeria, shows the felines partially concealed by vegetation, with one lion in the foreground and another further back. The image exhibits classic Super 8 grain, muted colors, and a slightly shaky, observational camera style, evoking a sense of raw, unfiltered wildlife documentation from the late 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127562946

Rights & Clearance

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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Nigeria Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s wildlife archive requests needing observational 8mm footage of lions resting in tall grass for documentary, museum, education, or contextual nature sequences.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1960s visitor-shot wildlife viewing, with period clues coming mainly from the 8mm home-movie format, soft color, and handheld framing.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a distance through vegetation, holding on resting lions without staging or close intervention.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include lions or cubs in tall green grass, low shrubs, bare branches, a grassy mound, soft focus, and dark contact-sheet borders.
Film character: The clip has muted color, visible 8mm grain, soft exposure, slight handheld instability, and contact-print framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, travel-reel insert, quiet transition, or memory beat within a sequence about African animals or safari-era home movies.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for nonprofessional wildlife filming in Nigeria or West Africa, showing lions observed at rest rather than a narrated scientific record.
Research note: No people, logos, audible music, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-specific permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 Nigeria 8mm lion footage, vintage African wildlife home movie, lions in tall grass, and Super 8 safari animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Nigeria 1969 material, then with broader 1960s African wildlife and savanna animal footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing a lion partly hidden in tall grass, with shrubs and dark film borders around the scene. — A lion rests low in tall grass, partly screened by brush.

The lion remains partly concealed in vegetation, facing to the right.

Vintage 8mm frame from Nigeria showing a lion lying low in grass, framed by brush and muted green vegetation. — A resting lion is visible through the grass and surrounding brush.

1969 Nigeria home-movie frame showing several lions or cubs grouped together on a grassy mound with brush behind them. — Several lions or cubs rest together on a low grassy mound.

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