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Nigeria-1969: Three Men Setting Up Tent in Savanna Camp

  • Year1969
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationNigeria
  • Duration6s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1969 Nigeria
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Three Men Setting Up Tent in Savanna Camp — Clip Details

NIGERIA-1969: Three men work together to set up a large black tent in a sun-dappled savanna clearing, with acacia trees and a green-roofed structure in the background. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures a candid moment of camp life under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds. The men, dressed in simple shirts and trousers, use ropes to secure the tent, their movements deliberate against the natural backdrop. The warm, slightly faded colors and visible film grain evoke a strong sense of nostalgia and historical authenticity, offering a glimpse into everyday life during a 1960s African expedition or safari.

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
127565938

Rights & Clearance

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

  • People visible: Yes
  • Minors 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

  • people
  • tree
  • house
  • working
  • land
  • three
  • men
  • create
  • tent
  • rope
  • completed
  • forest
  • nigeria
  • 1969
  • 1969 Nigeria footage
  • vintage 8mm film
  • African safari camp
  • men setting up tent
  • 1960s home movie
  • archival footage
  • 8mm home movie
  • vintage camping
  • African wilderness
  • 1960s expedition
  • outdoor survival
  • retro film
  • historical footage
  • documentary footage
  • old film
  • nostalgic footage
  • 8mm footage
  • vintage Super 8
  • 1960s Africa
  • 8mm film

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
This 1969 Nigeria 8mm clip supports archival requests for everyday camp setup, expedition logistics, or savanna field-life cutaways in 1960s documentary edits.
Period detail
The clothing, canvas tent, hand-tensioned ropes, and soft 8mm color may show late-1960s field-camp practice in a Nigerian savanna setting.
Home-movie behavior
The value is in the unstaged teamwork as three men adjust poles or ropes around a large tent while the camera observes from a shaded edge of the camp.
What appears in frame
Visible details include three men, a dark tent panel, guy ropes, a green-roofed structure, acacia-like trees, tall grass, sunlit clouds, and shaded foreground trunks.
Film character
The clip has handheld 8mm texture, visible grain, soft focus, high-contrast shade, and slightly faded color that preserve the physical home-movie scan character.
Edit role
An editor could use it as a brief cutaway, transitional camp-life insert, or memory beat between wider travel, safari, fieldwork, or rural outdoor sequences.
Historical context
The footage visually places manual camp labor in a wooded savanna clearing, but it does not by itself identify the expedition purpose or the men's roles.
Research note
People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from personal or property rights assessment.
Research search match
Likely search matches include 1969 Nigeria 8mm camp setup, men pitching tent in savanna, vintage African expedition camp, and home-movie safari camp life.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Nigeria 1969 material, then broader 1960s camp, travel, fieldwork, or savanna outdoor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1969 Nigeria, three men work beside a dark tent panel in a shaded savanna camp with trees, grass, and a green-roofed structure behind them.
Three men gather beside the tent as camp setup continues in the wooded clearing.
In the Nigeria camp scene, two men handle the tent edge while a third figure stands to the right among grass and trees.
Two men adjust the tent while another stands nearby in the clearing.
A man bends to work near the dark tent panel as another stands nearby in the 1969 Nigeria savanna camp clearing.
One man bends at the tent edge as another waits beside the setup area.
Two men continue work around the large dark tent in the Nigerian savanna clearing, with trees, grass, and a green-roofed structure visible.
The tent setup continues with two men working in the shaded camp clearing.

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