Nigeria-1969: Two Adult Buffaloes Look At The Camera In Broad Daylight In A

Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationNigeria
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Nigeria

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Two Adult Buffaloes Look At The Camera In Broad Daylight... — Clip Details

NIGERIA-1969: Two adult buffaloes stand in a sunlit grassy field under a clear blue sky. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the animals in their natural habitat, with one buffalo turning to face the camera. The image shows characteristic Super 8 grain, slight motion blur, and a vintage color palette with faded greens and deep blues. The scene is calm and observational, offering a rare glimpse of wildlife in a mid-century African landscape.

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: 127564575

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 Nigeria wildlife requests needing brief 8mm observational footage of buffaloes in open grassland for documentary, museum, or educational edits.
Period detail: The faded color, 8mm frame edges, grain, and handheld framing support a late-1960s home-movie character, while the landscape itself has few date-specific clues.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a distance as the buffaloes stand and turn in the field, giving the clip an unstaged traveler or field-visit perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two horned buffaloes, tall green grass, a low tree line, clear blue sky, film gate edges, and contact-sheet frame overlap.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, gate shadowing, and color fading that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife cutaway, location-establishing insert, or quiet transition within travel, conservation, or African landscape sequences.
Historical context: The clip visually records buffaloes in a broad grassy habitat in Nigeria, without showing people, buildings, roads, or identifiable landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still verify copyright, source ownership, and any wildlife or location-use context needed for publication.
Research search match: Searches such as 1969 Nigeria 8mm buffalo footage, African grassland wildlife home movie, and vintage buffaloes in field would match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Nigeria 1969 wildlife footage, then broader vintage African grassland animal material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A buffalo appears as a dark, soft-edged silhouette in a grassy field within 1969 Nigeria 8mm wildlife footage. — Buffalo seen at a distance in grass through a divided film frame.

A dark buffalo stands in a grassy Nigerian field, partly blurred by handheld 8mm filming and contact-sheet overlap. — Single buffalo visible in the upper field area.

Two buffaloes are partly obscured by frame overlap in a broad grassy landscape under blue sky in Nigeria. — Two buffaloes appear low in the frame across the grassland.

Two adult horned buffaloes stand in a sunlit Nigerian grassland, one turned toward the camera, in 1969 8mm footage. — Two buffaloes stand in tall grass with one facing the camera.

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