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Nigeria-1969: Massive Gray Elephant Walking In Savanna

  • Year1969
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationNigeria
  • Duration6s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1969 Nigeria
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Massive Gray Elephant Walking In Savanna — Clip Details

A massive gray elephant walks slowly through a sunlit grassy savanna in Nigeria, 1969. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the elephant’s wrinkled skin and long tusks as it moves across the open plain. The warm, slightly faded colors and visible film grain give the clip a nostalgic, vintage quality. The elephant’s trunk sways gently, and the background shows a line of trees under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds. This authentic home movie captures a peaceful moment in the wild, offering rich archival footage for documentaries, nature projects, or historical storytelling.

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
127564995

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1960s wildlife or travel-documentary requests needing Nigerian savanna elephant footage from an amateur 8mm source.
Period detail
The frame may show late-1960s color home-movie stock with no visible modern structures, vehicles, signage, or other date-specific objects beyond the supplied 1969 metadata.
Home-movie behavior
The clip has the feel of a traveler or safari visitor filming from a fixed, observational position as the elephant walks through tall grass.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a large gray elephant, long tusks, swaying trunk, tall savanna grass, a low tree line, bright sky, scattered clouds, and film-frame borders.
Film character
The 8mm image shows soft focus, visible grain, slightly faded color, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame edges that support its physical-film archive character.
Edit role
An editor could use it as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, transitional nature beat, or period texture within a sequence about Nigerian landscapes or safari footage.
Historical context
The scene documents an elephant in open grassland with a distant tree line, offering visual context for wildlife observation in Nigeria without making claims about conservation status or location specifics.
Research note
No people, logos, music, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright, source permissions, and any wildlife-location sensitivities before publication.
Research search match
Likely matches searches for 1969 Nigeria 8mm elephant footage, vintage savanna wildlife, gray elephant walking, safari home movie, and African wildlife archive clip.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Nigeria 1969 travel footage, then broader 1960s African wildlife or savanna animal material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Nigeria, 1969, a large gray elephant with long tusks walks across tall savanna grass beneath a bright, lightly clouded sky.
Elephant walking in tall savanna grass with tusks and trunk visible.
A side view shows the 1969 Nigeria elephant continuing through sunlit savanna grass, with tusks, trunk, and a distant tree line visible.
Side profile of the elephant moving slowly through open grassland.
The elephant is partly turned away in the Nigeria 1969 savanna scene, its body, ear, tusk, and legs visible amid tall grass.
Rear-side view of the elephant as it continues across the savanna.
Near the end of the 1969 Nigeria clip, the elephant moves through tall grass with its tusk and trunk visible, bordered by dark 8mm frame edges.
Elephant in profile within a visible 8mm film-frame border.

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