Nigeria-1969: Elephant Walking Away Through Grass

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationNigeria
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Nigeria

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Elephant Walking Away Through Grass — Clip Details

NIGERIA-1969: An African elephant with prominent tusks walks slowly through a sun-drenched grassy field, its massive form silhouetted against a vibrant blue sky with scattered white clouds. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the animal from a side profile as it moves away from the camera, its trunk swaying gently. The warm, slightly faded color palette and visible film grain evoke a nostalgic, archival quality, characteristic of vintage home movie footage from the late 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127565090

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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 (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Nigeria Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s documentary or educational edits needing visitor-shot African wildlife footage from Nigeria on 8mm film.
Period detail: The visible period clues are primarily the 8mm color stock, grain, exposure, and handheld safari-style framing rather than identifiable buildings or dated objects.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of an unstaged traveler observing an elephant from a fixed distance as it moves through tall grass.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an African elephant, tusks, tall grass, a low tree line, blue sky, scattered clouds, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, slight fading, uneven exposure, and contact-frame borders give the footage a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, or quiet transition into a broader sequence about African landscapes or animals.
Historical context: The footage may show a late-1960s tourist or field observation of an elephant in open grassland, with no visible people or infrastructure in the frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but wildlife location, underlying copyright, and any contextual claims should still be checked before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 Nigeria 8mm elephant footage, African wildlife home movie, elephant in tall grass, and vintage safari animal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Nigeria 1969 material, then broader African wildlife or elephant footage from similar home-movie sources.

Still Frames From This Clip

Elephant moving across a grassy field with tusks visible.

African elephant continues through tall grass in Nigeria, 1969, with tusks and trunk visible against a pale sky. — Elephant turns slightly away while crossing the grassland.

Rear-side view of an African elephant in Nigeria, 1969, walking through grass with one tusk visible and sky behind. — Elephant seen from behind as it moves farther into the field.

African elephant walks away through Nigerian grassland in 1969, partly silhouetted with tusk and tail visible. — Elephant recedes through tall grass beneath a bright clouded sky.

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