Nigeria-1969: Marabou Stork Standing in Grass

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationNigeria
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Nigeria

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Marabou Stork Standing in Grass — 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 restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127563940

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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 (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Nigeria Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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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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.

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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