Nigeria-1969: Lioness and Cubs Resting in Savanna Grass

Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationNigeria
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Nigeria

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Lioness and Cubs Resting in Savanna Grass — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a lioness and her cubs resting in a grassy savanna. The lioness stands alert while several cubs lie nestled together in the green grass, surrounded by sparse shrubs. The footage shows natural wildlife behavior in a serene, sun-drenched setting, with the characteristic grain and color palette of 1960s Super 8 film. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse into African wildlife during the late 1960s, perfect for documentaries, nature projects, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127563663

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: Helps fill 1960s wildlife and travel-film requests needing Nigerian 8mm footage of lions at rest in savanna grass for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The imagery may show late-1960s amateur safari or wildlife filming, with no visible landmarks, vehicles, people, or signage to narrow the setting beyond the supplied Nigeria metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot wildlife observation feel, holding on a lioness and cubs from a fixed, distant vantage without staged action or presenter framing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a standing lioness, several resting cubs, green savanna grass, low shrubs, bare tree branches, soft background vegetation, and dark film-gate edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, handheld steadiness, and contact-frame borders that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, calm transition, natural-history insert, or period travel-memory beat within a 1960s Africa sequence.
Historical context: The frames provide visual context for amateur wildlife observation in Nigeria in 1969, limited to animals and habitat rather than identifiable human activity or named reserve evidence.
Research note: No people, logos, music, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any wildlife-location or collection documentation before publication.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 Nigeria 8mm lion footage, vintage home movie lioness with cubs, African savanna wildlife, and 1960s amateur safari film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Nigeria 1969 footage, then broader 1960s African wildlife or lion-family material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame of a lioness standing alert beside cubs lying together in green savanna grass. — A lioness stands over resting cubs among grass and sparse shrubs.

The lioness remains beside a cluster of cubs in grassy Nigerian savanna, framed by sparse brush and 8mm film borders. — The lioness stays close to several cubs resting in the grass.

A 1969 Nigeria wildlife frame shows the lioness lower in the grass while cubs remain clustered beside her. — The lioness lowers near the resting cubs in dense green grass.

The lioness appears settled beside cubs in the Nigerian savanna, with shrubs and soft 8mm texture visible around the group. — The lioness and cubs rest together in the grass as the shot holds.

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