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Nigeria-1969: Cape Buffalo Stands In Tall Golden Grass Facing Camera

  • Year1969
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationNigeria
  • Duration6s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1969 Nigeria
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Cape Buffalo Stands In Tall Golden Grass Facing Camera — Clip Details

A Cape Buffalo stands in a golden grassy field in Nigeria, 1969, its dark form contrasting against the sun-drenched savanna. The animal faces the camera directly, its curved horns prominent, as it remains still in the tall grass. Shot on 8mm film, the footage displays natural grain, warm color tones, and a vintage home movie aesthetic. The background features scattered trees and shrubs, suggesting a wild African landscape. This archival clip captures a moment of quiet tension between wildlife and the lens, evoking a sense of raw, unfiltered nature from the late 1960s.

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
127564170

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1960s wildlife or travel-documentary requests needing archival 8mm footage of a large African bovine facing the camera in open grassland.
Period detail
The warm 8mm color, soft focus, and home-movie framing support the 1969 date in the metadata, while the landscape itself has few precise era markers.
Home-movie behavior
The clip holds a cautious visitor-shot viewpoint, observing the animal from a distance rather than staging or directing the encounter.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a dark horned buffalo, tall yellow-green grass, scattered shrubs, distant trees, open savanna-like ground, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character
The footage has visible grain, muted warm color, slight softness, and contact-sheet frame borders consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role
An editor could use it as a wildlife cutaway, travel insert, tension beat, or visual bridge in a sequence about African landscapes or animal encounters.
Historical context
The scene visually documents a large wild animal in a Nigerian grassland setting as recorded by a private 1969 film camera, without showing people or built structures.
Research note
No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still confirm copyright status and any wildlife, location, or editorial-use requirements.
Research search match
Matches searches for 1969 Nigeria 8mm wildlife footage, Cape buffalo in tall grass, African savanna home movie, and vintage animal encounter footage.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Nigeria 1969 travel scenes, then broader 1960s African wildlife or grassland material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1969 Nigeria footage, a dark horned buffalo faces the camera from tall golden grass with scattered shrubs and trees beyond.
A buffalo faces the camera from tall grass in an open Nigerian landscape.
The buffalo remains front-facing in the tall grass, framed by soft 8mm grain and a line of shrubs in the background.
The animal holds its position, facing the lens across the grass.
A dark buffalo stands nearly centered in tall grass in the Nigerian landscape, its curved horns visible against the softer background.
A centered view of the buffalo standing still in the grassland.
Near the end of the clip, the buffalo is still facing the camera in tall grass, with shrubs and trees marking the distant background.
The buffalo remains stationary in the grass as the shot continues.

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