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Nigeria-1969: Male Lion Walking Through Tall Grass

  • Year1969
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationNigeria
  • Duration6s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1969 Nigeria
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Male Lion Walking Through Tall Grass — Clip Details

A majestic male lion with a full mane walks through tall grass in a sun-drenched African savanna, captured on 8mm film in 1969. The lion moves steadily through the dry grassland, its powerful form partially obscured by the vegetation, with dense brush forming a natural backdrop. Shot on vintage 8mm film, the footage exhibits natural grain, soft focus, and authentic color tones characteristic of home movie recordings from the late 1960s. This raw, unfiltered wildlife moment offers a rare glimpse of a wild lion in its natural habitat, evoking a sense of adventure and nostalgia.

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
127563275

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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

  • nature
  • ecological park
  • beauty
  • relaxing
  • living life
  • sunbathing
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  • Nigerian savanna
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  • nature documentary
  • animal behavior
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  • African fauna
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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1960s wildlife or travel-documentary requests needing 8mm footage of a male lion moving through tall grass in Nigeria.
Period detail
The soft color, grain, and contact-print framing support a late-1960s 8mm home-movie look, with no visible landmarks to refine location beyond the metadata.
Home-movie behavior
The camera observes from a cautious distance as the lion walks through grass, giving the clip an unstaged field-recording quality.
What appears in frame
A male lion with a mane, tall pale grass, darker brush, soft vegetation, handheld framing, and visible film-frame borders are present.
Film character
The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, muted color, uneven exposure, and slight handheld instability typical of amateur wildlife filming.
Edit role
Editors can use it as a wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, or quiet transition within a broader African landscape or animal sequence.
Historical context
The clip visually documents a lion in grassy habitat, but the frames do not support claims about a specific park, expedition, or conservation event.
Research note
No people, logos, or buildings are visible, but copyright, archive license terms, and location or wildlife-use context should still be reviewed.
Research search match
Searches such as 1969 Nigeria 8mm lion footage, vintage African wildlife home movie, or male lion tall grass archive may match this clip.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Nigeria 1969 footage, then with vintage African wildlife or savanna animal material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing a male lion partly obscured by tall grass with dense brush behind it.
A male lion moves low through tall grass near a brushy edge.
1969 Nigeria 8mm frame of a maned lion walking through pale grass, its head lowered beside dense vegetation.
The lion continues through the grass with its mane visible above the stems.
1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing a side view of a male lion crossing through tall grass in soft, grainy color.
A side view catches the lion moving across the frame through vegetation.
1969 Nigeria 8mm frame of a male lion moving through tall grass, partly softened by focus and vegetation.
The lion remains partly obscured as it passes in front of brush.

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