Nigeria-1969: Bushbucks in Grassland

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationNigeria
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Nigeria

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Bushbucks in Grassland — Clip Details

NIGERIA-1969: A young bushbuck stands alert in a sunlit savanna, its dark coat and distinctive white markings contrasting with the tall green grass. Another antelope rests in the background as the camera captures the serene wildlife scene. Shot on 8mm film, this vintage home movie footage displays natural grain and color saturation typical of the era, offering authentic archival material 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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127564102

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s Nigeria wildlife requests needing brief 8mm home-movie views of antelope in tall grass for documentary, museum, education or nature-history edits.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1960s amateur wildlife filming, with no visible buildings, roads or modern objects beyond the 8mm color stock and handheld framing.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the patient, unstaged observer perspective, as the camera holds on bushbucks standing and resting in open grass rather than arranging a formal wildlife shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include horned bushbucks, a resting antelope, tall green grass, a bare tree, distant low vegetation, blue sky and dark frame edges from the film scan.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, saturated color, uneven exposure and slight handheld steadiness that mark it as original amateur film material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet wildlife cutaway, a field-life insert, a transition within African travel footage or a short observational memory beat.
Historical context: The frames provide visual context for wildlife encountered in Nigeria in 1969 without showing people, settlements, signage or specific identifiable events.
Research note: No people, logos or private property are visible, but species identification and location should be verified and copyright clearance remains separate from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 Nigeria 8mm wildlife footage, bushbuck in tall grass, vintage African savanna home movie or antelope standing and resting.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Nigeria 1969 travel or wildlife footage, and then with broader vintage African savanna animal scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing bushbucks in tall grass, with one standing alert and another resting farther back near a bare tree. — Bushbucks stand and rest in a grassy field with distant scrub and a bare tree behind them.

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame with a bushbuck standing alert in tall grass and a second antelope lying in the field behind it. — A standing bushbuck looks toward the camera as another antelope lies in the grass.

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing one bushbuck standing in a grassy field while another lies low in the grass behind it. — One bushbuck stands in the field while another remains low in the surrounding grass.

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame with a closer view of a horned bushbuck standing broadside in tall green grass. — A horned bushbuck stands broadside in tall grass during a brief close view.

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