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Nigeria-1969: A Water Buffalo Wandering in a Grassy Savanna Field

  • Year1969
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationNigeria
  • Duration6s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1969 Nigeria
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A Water Buffalo Wandering in a Grassy Savanna Field — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from Nigeria in 1969 captures a water buffalo wandering through a sun-drenched grassy field. The animal moves steadily across the open savanna, its dark form contrasting with the golden-green grass under a pale blue sky. Other buffalo are visible in the distance, grazing near scattered trees and rolling hills. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight color fading, and a natural, unscripted feel, offering authentic wildlife and rural African scenery 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
127564552

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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Topics & Keywords

  • grass
  • green
  • buffalo
  • wandering
  • moving
  • open space
  • water
  • grassy
  • open
  • field
  • animals
  • wildlife
  • nigeria
  • 1969
  • 1969 Nigeria wildlife footage
  • vintage 8mm film
  • water buffalo in field
  • African savanna
  • Super 8 home movie
  • 1960s archival footage
  • wild animal footage
  • grassy plains
  • retro film
  • old home movie
  • documentary footage
  • nature footage
  • wildlife documentary
  • African countryside
  • 8mm film grain
  • vintage safari footage
  • nostalgic wildlife
  • 1960s home movie
  • vintage animal footage

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for requests needing late-1960s Nigerian 8mm wildlife or rural savanna cutaways for documentary, education, or archive-led productions.
Period detail
The footage may show 1969 visitor-shot rural Nigeria, with era clues carried mainly by the 8mm color stock, soft focus, and handheld framing rather than built structures or signage.
Home-movie behavior
The camera observes the buffalo from a distance with a casual, unstaged home-movie perspective, following animal movement rather than arranging a formal wildlife shot.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include dark buffalo in tall grass, distant grazing animals, scattered trees, low hills, pale blue sky, and open savanna-like field.
Film character
The scan shows 8mm grain, faded color, soft focus, gate edges, dust marks, and slight handheld instability that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a wildlife insert, rural landscape cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into broader material on Nigerian countryside or animal life.
Historical context
The clip offers visual context for open rural grassland and wildlife seen through a late-1960s home-movie lens, without visible people, buildings, or identifiable public events.
Research note
No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright status, source permissions, and any location or wildlife-use sensitivities.
Research search match
Likely matches searches for 1969 Nigeria 8mm buffalo footage, vintage African savanna wildlife, home movie grazing animals, and rural field animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Nigeria 1969 footage, then broader vintage African wildlife, grassland, or travel home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A buffalo stands in a grassy Nigerian field in 1969-era 8mm footage, with distant animals, trees, and low hills under a pale sky.
Buffalo pauses in tall grass with open countryside and distant grazing animals behind it.
A buffalo moves through tall grass in Nigeria, seen in soft, motion-blurred 1969 8mm home-movie footage.
Motion-blurred buffalo crosses the grassy field as the camera follows from a distance.
A rear view of a buffalo in a grassy Nigerian field, with other animals and a low ridge visible in 1969 8mm footage.
Buffalo turns away in the grass while distant animals remain near the horizon.
A buffalo walks across an open grassy field in Nigeria, framed by distant trees and low hills in 1969 8mm footage.
Buffalo walks laterally through the field against a backdrop of trees and low hills.

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