Nigeria-1969: Vintage Footage Of An African Elephant Eating Grass In A Green Field

Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationNigeria
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Nigeria

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Vintage Footage Of An African Elephant Eating Grass In A... — Clip Details

NIGERIA-1969: A majestic African elephant with large tusks walks through a sun-drenched green field, its trunk swaying as it feeds on grass. Shot on 8mm film, this vintage home movie captures the animal in its natural habitat under a bright sky, with a distant treeline visible. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering authentic archival wildlife footage from the late 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127564963

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: 1960s Nigeria wildlife footage suited to documentary inserts, educational programming, museum media, or archival sequences needing an African elephant feeding in open grassland.
Period detail: The frames show 8mm-era color, soft focus, and handheld framing that support the 1969 home-movie attribution without revealing specific landmarks or dated infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: The clip appears to be filmed from a visitor or traveler viewpoint, observing a single elephant calmly feeding rather than staging or interacting with the animal.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tusked elephant, tall green grass, a distant treeline, pale blue sky, soft clouds, and dark film-frame edges from the scan.
Film character: The footage carries visible film grain, warm color saturation, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that give it a physical 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, location-establishing insert, travel-memory beat, or transition within a sequence about African landscapes or animals.
Historical context: The scene documents a late-1960s home-movie view of an elephant in grassland, offering wildlife context without enough visual evidence to identify a reserve or exact setting.
Research note: No people, logos, music, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright ownership, location context, and any wildlife-use requirements for their project.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1969 Nigeria 8mm elephant footage, vintage African wildlife home movie, elephant eating grass archival film, and 1960s grassland animal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Nigeria 1969 material, then broader 1960s African wildlife or grassland travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A tusked elephant stands in profile while feeding in open grassland.

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame of a tusked elephant lowering its trunk while moving through green grassland. — The elephant lowers its trunk toward the grass as it moves across the field.

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing a tusked elephant with its trunk curled while standing in tall grass. — The elephant curls its trunk near its tusks while standing in the grass.

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame of a tusked elephant raising its trunk in a grassy field with trees in the distance. — The elephant raises its trunk as it remains in profile in the open field.

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