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Nigeria-1969: A Buffalo With Large Horns Walking Through A Field Of Grass

  • Year1969
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationNigeria
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1969 Nigeria
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A Buffalo With Large Horns Walking Through A Field Of Grass — Clip Details

A large African buffalo with prominent curved horns walks through a sun-drenched grassy field in Nigeria, captured on 8mm film in 1969. The animal moves steadily across the open savanna under a clear blue sky, with distant hills forming a natural backdrop. The footage exhibits the characteristic grain, slight color fading, and soft focus of vintage Super 8 home movie footage, offering a nostalgic glimpse of African wildlife. The camera remains mostly static, observing the buffalo as it ambles through the tall grass, with the film's natural imperfections adding to its authentic archival quality.

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
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
127564562

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
Supports requests for late-1960s Nigerian wildlife footage, especially documentary inserts needing a brief home-movie view of a horned African buffalo in grassland.
Period detail
The 8mm color stock, soft focus, and contact-sheet frames support the 1969 home-movie dating, while the landscape itself offers few precise period markers.
Home-movie behavior
The footage has a patient visitor-shot quality, observing the animal from a distance without staging, narration, or visible human intervention.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a dark horned buffalo, tall green grass, open field, blue sky, distant low hills, film gate borders, and dust marks on the scan.
Film character
The clip carries visible 8mm grain, muted color, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and frame-edge artifacts that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory beat, savanna transition, or brief observational insert within a Nigeria or African fauna sequence.
Historical context
The frames show a large horned animal moving through open grassland in Nigeria, giving visual context for non-staged wildlife observation in a 1960s home movie.
Research note
No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still verify copyright status, location claims, and species identification for their project.
Research search match
Useful search matches include 1969 Nigeria 8mm wildlife, African buffalo in grassland, vintage home movie savanna animal, and horned buffalo field footage.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other Nigeria 1969 material, then related vintage African wildlife or grassland animal footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A dark horned buffalo stands in a Nigerian grass field, with a blue sky and distant hills visible in this 1969 8mm frame.
Horned buffalo in tall grass with distant hills behind it.
A horned buffalo appears farther across the Nigerian grassland, framed by open sky and a low ridge in the background.
Buffalo moving through grass beneath an open blue sky.
A soft-focused 8mm frame shows the horned buffalo moving through tall grass in Nigeria, with another dark animal shape near the right edge.
Buffalo in motion through tall grass, softened by camera blur.
The final 1969 8mm frame shows a blurred horned buffalo crossing grassland, with another dark animal form partly visible at the right edge.
Blurred buffalo crosses the grass as another animal shape enters the edge of frame.

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