Nigeria-1969: Primates Chase Each Other As Storks Stand Nearby In Tall Grass

Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationNigeria
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Nigeria

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

Primates Chase Each Other As Storks Stand Nearby In Tall... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a dynamic wildlife scene in Nigeria. A baboon chases another through tall green grass, their movements blurred by motion. A large marabou stork stands nearby, its distinctive black-and-white plumage and long beak clearly visible. The footage shows natural behavior in a grassy savanna habitat with scattered trees, rendered in the authentic grain and color palette of 8mm film. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse of African wildlife and primate interaction, perfect for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 127563779

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.

Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1969 Nigeria wildlife home-movie footage suited to documentary or educational requests for African primates, storks, tall grass habitat, and handheld 8mm animal behavior.
Period detail: The 1969 date is supplied by metadata, while the frames themselves mainly show a grassy wildlife setting with scattered trees and no visible modern infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a visitor or traveler reacting quickly to nearby wildlife, with handheld framing following the animals as they move through grass.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two primates in tall grass, a marabou stork, scattered tree trunks, green savanna vegetation, soft motion blur, and dark contact-sheet frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows visible grain, muted color, uneven exposure, handheld motion, and blur that reflect the physical home-movie record of a brief wildlife moment.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife insert, habitat cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition within a sequence about African animals or archival field observation.
Historical context: The scene documents animals in a Nigerian grassy habitat as seen through a 1960s home-movie camera, without visible people, buildings, signs, or identifiable institutions.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but copyright status, source permissions, and species or location identification should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search language includes 1969 Nigeria 8mm wildlife, baboons chasing in tall grass, marabou stork near primates, African savanna home movie, and archival animal behavior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1969 Nigeria wildlife material, then broader archival clips of African primates, birds, grassland, and travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing blurred primates moving through tall grass beside scattered trees. — Primates pass quickly through grass as the handheld camera follows the movement.

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame with a primate in tall green grass near a thin tree trunk. — A primate pauses or moves in the grass with trees and vegetation behind it.

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing a marabou stork near a primate in tall grass beside a tree. — A marabou stork stands in the foreground while a primate moves nearby in the grass.

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame with motion-blurred stork and primates in tall grass near trees. — The camera swings across the grassy scene, leaving the stork and primates partially blurred.

Visually Similar Clips