Nigeria-1969: Gazelles Graze in Tall Grass on Sloping Hill

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationNigeria
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Nigeria

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Gazelles Graze in Tall Grass on Sloping Hill — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a herd of gazelles grazing and moving through a tall grassy field on a sloping hill in Nigeria. The animals, with their distinctive black and white markings, move gracefully through the golden-green savanna under a pale blue sky. The footage exhibits natural film grain and slight camera shake, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. This authentic wildlife scene offers a nostalgic glimpse into African nature and 1960s amateur filmmaking.

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: 127564262

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: Useful for 1960s wildlife, travel, education, or documentary requests needing brief 8mm home-movie footage of grazing antelope-like animals in Nigerian grassland.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly the 8mm color-film look, handheld framing, and open savanna setting; no landmarks or modern infrastructure appear in the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged observer's viewpoint, with the camera watching animals graze and move across tall grass rather than presenting a controlled wildlife sequence.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include gazelles or antelope-like animals, tall grass, a sloping field, distant shrubs, pale blue sky, dark film-frame edges, and slight motion blur.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm color, visible grain, mild exposure variation, handheld shake, and frame-edge darkness that support its physical home-movie character.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a short wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, environmental transition, or quiet visual beat within a 1960s Africa or nature sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents wildlife observed in an open grassy landscape in Nigeria in 1969, while the frames do not identify a specific reserve, town, or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but species identification, copyright status, and location specificity should still be independently reviewed.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1969 Nigeria 8mm wildlife footage, gazelles grazing in tall grass, vintage African savanna home movie, and antelope herd field cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other Nigeria 1969 material, and then with broader 1960s wildlife, grassland, or travel-home-movie clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing several gazelles or antelope-like animals dispersed across tall grass on a hillside. — Several animals graze in a grassy slope, seen through dark 8mm frame edges.

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame with gazelles or antelope-like animals moving and feeding in tall green grass below a pale sky. — Animals remain spread across the hillside as the camera holds a distant view.

Closer 1969 Nigeria 8mm view of antelope-like animals with black and white markings standing and grazing in tall grass. — The camera moves closer, showing the animals' flank markings and upright ears.

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing two antelope-like animals in tall grass, with one lowering its head as another stands nearby. — A nearer pair of animals pauses in the grass as one bends its head down.

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