Nigeria-1969: Buffaloes Grazing In A Green Savanna Field

Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationNigeria
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Nigeria

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Buffaloes Grazing In A Green Savanna Field — Clip Details

NIGERIA-1969: Two large black buffaloes stand and graze in a vast green grassy field under a pale blue sky. The scene, captured on 8mm film, shows the animals in profile and from behind, with distant hills and scattered trees on the horizon. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural camera movement, offering a nostalgic glimpse of African wildlife in a serene pastoral setting.

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: 127564511

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s documentary or educational edits needing archive footage of African buffalo grazing in open Nigerian savanna landscape.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1960s travel or wildlife filming, with era clues mainly from the 8mm color stock, soft exposure, and handheld framing.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels like a visitor or traveler pausing at distance to film wildlife behavior without staging or close intervention.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark buffaloes, tall green grass, low hills, scattered trees, pale sky, and the black contact-sheet frame divisions.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, muted color, slight fading, and handheld steadiness that give the wildlife scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, geographic transition, or quiet observational insert within a broader Nigeria or African savanna sequence.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for open grazing habitat and large wild animals, without showing people, roads, buildings, or identifiable institutions.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any wildlife-location permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1969 Nigeria 8mm buffalo footage, African savanna home movie, black buffalo grazing, and vintage wildlife film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then with other Nigeria 1969 wildlife footage, then with broader African savanna animal grazing scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two dark buffaloes in a green savanna field in Nigeria, filmed on 8mm with distant hills and scattered trees on the horizon. — Two buffaloes stand side by side in tall grass beneath a pale sky.

A buffalo pauses in profile amid tall green grass and distant hills.

Two buffaloes remain close together in a green Nigerian savanna field, framed from a distance on faded 8mm film. — Two buffaloes stand close together in the grass with a low ridge behind them.

Two buffaloes face toward the camera in a Nigerian grassland scene, with distant blue hills and visible 8mm grain. — Two buffaloes face forward from the grass near the end of the shot.

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