Nigeria-1969: Two Buffalo in Savanna Grassland

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationNigeria
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Nigeria

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Two Buffalo in Savanna Grassland — Clip Details

NIGERIA-1969: Two large African buffalo stand in a grassy savanna under a pale blue sky, their dark silhouettes contrasting with the golden field. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the animals in their natural habitat with a distinct vintage color palette and film grain. The scene is calm, with the buffalo stationary, offering a rare glimpse of wildlife in the Nigerian bush during the late 1960s. The image is framed by the dark borders of a projector, enhancing its authentic home movie feel.

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: 127564489

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

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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 Nigerian wildlife or African savanna documentary edits needing brief observational 8mm footage of buffalo in open grassland.
Period detail: The clip shows vintage 8mm color, projector-frame borders, and a 1969 metadata date, with no visible modern structures or identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged visitor-shot quality, observing two buffalo from a fixed distance without visible crew, narration, or constructed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two dark buffalo, tall savanna grass, low scrub, distant blue hills, pale sky, and heavy dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm grain, soft focus, slight color shift, exposure falloff, and contact-sheet framing that support its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short wildlife cutaway, African travel insert, transitional landscape beat, or period memory detail within a 1960s sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually situates large wildlife in open Nigerian bushland, but the frames do not identify a park, reserve, expedition, or specific region.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, though users should separately verify copyright, source permissions, and any wildlife-location claims.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 Nigeria 8mm buffalo footage, African savanna home movie, vintage wildlife film, or archival bush grassland cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Nigeria 1969 travel or wildlife shots, then broader 1960s African savanna and large-animal footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two African buffalo stand in Nigerian savanna grassland in 1969-era 8mm footage, with low hills and a pale sky behind them. — Two buffalo pause in tall grass beneath a pale sky, framed by dark projector borders.

The buffalo hold position in the grass, silhouetted against open savanna and distant hills.

In this 1969 Nigeria 8mm frame, two dark buffalo stand among tall grass with blue hills and open sky beyond. — Two buffalo appear partly silhouetted as they stand in tall savanna grass.

Two buffalo stand apart in the Nigerian savanna, framed by tall grass, distant hills, pale sky, and visible 8mm film borders. — The animals remain stationary in the field, with low hills stretching across the background.

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