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Nigeria-1969: A Large Bird With A Long Beak And Legs Stands In Tall Grass Near A

  • Year1969
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationNigeria
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1969 Nigeria
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A Large Bird With A Long Beak And Legs Stands In Tall... — Clip Details

NIGERIA-1969: A large marabou stork stands in a grassy field, its long beak open as it surveys its surroundings. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the bird's distinctive black-and-white plumage and featherless pink neck against a backdrop of green vegetation and a small tree. The natural, unsteady camera movement and film grain evoke a raw, authentic home movie feel from the late 1960s. This archival wildlife clip offers a rare glimpse of African fauna in its natural habitat, perfect for documentaries, nature projects, or nostalgic content.

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
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
127563940

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
1960s Nigeria wildlife footage for editors needing a short archival cutaway of a large wading bird in grassy habitat.
Period detail
The visible clues are mainly the 8mm film texture, soft focus, and handheld framing, which fit the supplied 1969 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior
The clip has an observational home-movie feel, with the camera holding on the bird as it stands and opens its beak in tall grass.
What appears in frame
A marabou stork, long beak, pale legs, dark wings, white shoulder patches, green grass, a small tree trunk, and soft background vegetation are visible.
Film character
The scan shows 8mm grain, mild blur, uneven exposure, and handheld drift that give the wildlife moment physical-film texture.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a wildlife insert, travel-film cutaway, or quiet transition within African nature or home-movie sequences.
Historical context
The footage visually documents a large bird in a grassy Nigerian setting without showing people, buildings, or identifiable public events.
Research note
No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, species identification, and location metadata should still be verified by the researcher.
Research search match
Useful searches include 1969 Nigeria 8mm wildlife, marabou stork in grass, African bird home movie, and vintage nature footage Nigeria.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Nigeria 1969 material, then broader 1960s African wildlife or bird footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A large marabou stork stands in tall green grass in Nigeria, filmed on 8mm home-movie footage from the supplied 1969 metadata.
Large stork-like bird standing in grass beside a dark tree trunk.
The marabou stork appears in profile with its beak open, standing among green vegetation in the 1969 Nigeria footage.
Marabou stork in profile with its beak open in grassy vegetation.
A soft 8mm frame shows the long-legged bird standing in tall grass, with a small tree trunk and muted vegetation behind it.
Soft-focused frame of the stork standing in tall grass.
The final frame holds on the marabou stork in a grassy Nigerian setting, with dark wings, pale legs, and a featherless-looking neck.
Stork-like bird standing still in green grass near a small tree.

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