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Nigeria-1969: Elephant In The Field Eating Grass

  • Year1969
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationNigeria
  • Duration6s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1969 Nigeria
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Elephant In The Field Eating Grass — Clip Details

A majestic African elephant with prominent tusks walks slowly through tall green grass in a sunlit savanna. Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures the animal grazing and moving gracefully across the open field. The footage shows natural wildlife behavior with a soft, nostalgic quality, grainy texture, and warm color tones typical of Super 8 film. The elephant’s wrinkled skin and large ears are clearly visible as it moves through the grassy landscape, offering a rare glimpse of wild life in Nigeria 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
127565014

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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  • forest
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  • 1969
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  • African elephant in savanna
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  • 1960s archival film
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  • vintage safari footage
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  • classic home movie
  • nostalgic 1969 footage
  • wild life in Nigeria
  • vintage film grain
  • 1960s Africa
  • elephant walking
  • grassland wildlife
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  • documentary wildlife

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
1969 Nigeria 8mm wildlife footage for productions needing an archival elephant cutaway, natural-history insert, or late-1960s travel home-movie reference.
Period detail
The frames show a film-era view of an elephant in open grassland, with color, grain, and framing consistent with the supplied 1969 8mm home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior
The camera observes the elephant from a distance as it walks and grazes, giving the clip the unstaged feel of a traveler filming wildlife in the field.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a tusked elephant, tall green grass, an open horizon, distant dark tree line, pale sky, and gate-like vertical film-frame bars from the contact sheet.
Film character
The footage has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a brief wildlife insert, savanna cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition between broader Nigeria or African wildlife sequences.
Historical context
The clip documents a late-1960s home-movie encounter with an elephant in grassy terrain, but the frames do not identify a specific park, reserve, or event.
Research note
No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review source copyright, location claims, and wildlife-use context for their project.
Research search match
Useful search matches include 1969 Nigeria elephant 8mm footage, vintage African wildlife home movie, tusked elephant in grass, and archival savanna animal clip.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Nigeria 1969 material, and then with broader vintage wildlife, grassland, or travel home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A tusked elephant moves through tall grass in Nigeria, shown in 1969 8mm home-movie footage.
Elephant walking through tall grass with tusks visible.
Profile view of a tusked elephant crossing tall grass in the supplied 1969 Nigeria wildlife footage.
Profile of an elephant moving across the grassland.
Closer 8mm frame of a tusked elephant with its trunk lowered among tall grass in Nigeria.
Elephant lowers its trunk while moving through tall grass.
A tusked elephant walks through grass with its trunk curled slightly, in 1969 Nigeria 8mm footage.
Elephant walking as its trunk curls near the grass.

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