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Nigeria-1969: Elephant Roaming The Grasslands

  • Year1969
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationNigeria
  • Duration6s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1969 Nigeria
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Elephant Roaming The Grasslands — Clip Details

A majestic elephant roams across the African savanna in this 1969 8mm home movie footage. Shot on vintage Super 8 film, the clip captures the elephant in silhouette against a dramatic sky with scattered clouds, its tusks visible as it moves through tall grass. Sparse acacia trees dot the landscape, and the warm, slightly faded color palette evokes a nostalgic, archival feel. The natural movement of the elephant and the film's grainy texture offer a rare glimpse of wildlife in its natural habitat during 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
127564640

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

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  • animal migration
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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
1969 Nigeria 8mm wildlife footage suited for documentary inserts, education programs, museum media, or archive edits needing elephant and savanna material from a home-movie source.
Period detail
The visible period clues are mainly the 8mm color stock, soft focus, handheld framing, and late-1960s metadata rather than built structures, clothing, vehicles, or signage.
Home-movie behavior
The clip has a visitor-shot wildlife perspective, holding on the elephant from a distance as it moves through grass without staged action or narration visible in frame.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a silhouetted elephant, pale tusks, tall grass, sparse flat-topped trees, a low horizon, clouded sky, and dark frame edges from the film scan.
Film character
The footage shows pronounced grain, faded color, uneven exposure, and slight handheld instability that read as original small-gauge home-movie texture.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a brief wildlife cutaway, travel-memory beat, transition from landscape to animal life, or atmospheric insert within African home-movie material.
Historical context
The clip visually records a mid-century tourist or amateur encounter with large wildlife in open grassland, while the frames do not identify a specific reserve or event.
Research note
No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but users should still clear copyright and verify location, date, and any wildlife or location-use requirements for their project.
Research search match
Useful search matches include 1969 Nigeria 8mm elephant footage, African savanna home movie, vintage wildlife grasslands, elephant with tusks, and archival travel film.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Nigeria 1969 material, then broader African wildlife, savanna landscape, travel, and vintage home-movie themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing a dark elephant profile with visible tusk in grassland beside sparse trees and a clouded horizon.
An elephant moves across open grassland with sparse trees and a dramatic clouded sky behind it.
1969 Nigeria 8mm frame of an elephant in side profile, its tusk bright against a darker body as it moves through grassland.
The elephant continues across the savanna, framed by tall grass, scattered trees, and a bright cloudy sky.
1969 Nigeria 8mm frame with the elephant nearer in the foreground, tusk visible as it stands or walks through tall grass near trees.
A closer view shows the elephant partly in silhouette, with one pale tusk standing out against the darker body.
1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing the elephant turned slightly toward the camera, tusks visible in dark grassland under a clouded sky.
The elephant turns slightly toward the camera, its tusks visible against the subdued grassland scene.

Visually Similar Clips

← Previous in archiveNigeria-1969: Lone Elephant Eating Tall Tan Grass On A Clear DayNext in archive →Nigeria-1969: Elephant Walking Alone In The Savanna
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