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Nigeria-1969: Elephants In Forest

  • Year1969
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationNigeria
  • Duration6s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1969 Nigeria
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Elephants In Forest — Clip Details

A majestic African elephant with prominent tusks walks slowly through a sunlit grassy savanna in Nigeria, captured on 8mm film in 1969. The elephant moves from left to right across the frame, its wrinkled gray skin and large ears clearly visible against the green field and distant treeline. The footage exhibits natural film grain and slight motion blur, characteristic of vintage home movie recordings. This authentic wildlife moment offers a nostalgic glimpse into African wildlife from 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
127565006

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 documentary or educational sequences needing archival African wildlife footage of an elephant moving through open grassland in Nigeria.
Period detail
The 8mm color image, soft exposure, visible grain, and metadata-supported 1969 date place the scene in a late-1960s home-movie record of wildlife viewing.
Home-movie behavior
The camera observes from a steady visitor distance as the elephant crosses the field, giving the clip the value of an unstaged travel or safari home-movie encounter.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a tusked elephant, tall green grass, open savanna, distant treeline, pale sky, and dark frame edges from the film scan.
Film character
The clip has visible 8mm grain, mild softness, uneven exposure, and slight motion blur that read as physical-film texture from a handheld home-movie source.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, establishing detail, or transition within a sequence about African landscapes or animal observation.
Historical context
The footage documents a large elephant in open grassland and may reflect recreational wildlife filming in Nigeria without proving a specific reserve or expedition.
Research note
No people, brands, or private property are visible, but users should still verify copyright status and any location or wildlife-use requirements for their project.
Research search match
Matches searches for 1969 Nigeria 8mm elephant footage, African savanna wildlife home movies, tusked elephant archival film, and vintage travel wildlife cutaways.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Nigeria 1969 material, then broader 1960s African wildlife or savanna landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Nigeria 8mm frame showing a tusked elephant moving left to right through tall savanna grass.
A tusked elephant crosses open grassland with trees on the horizon.
1969 Nigeria home-movie frame of an elephant in profile, its tusk and trunk visible above the grass.
The elephant continues across the field, seen in side profile.
1969 Nigeria 8mm frame with a closer side view of the elephant moving through tall grass.
A closer frame shows the elephant’s wrinkled body, ear, tusk, and trunk.
1969 Nigeria wildlife frame showing a tusked elephant stepping through sunlit savanna grass.
The elephant steps forward through the grass near the end of the clip.

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