Medford New Jersey USA-1973: Momma Cat Licking One Of Her Baby Kittens While

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationMedford, New Jersey, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 Medford New Jersey

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Momma Cat Licking One Of Her Baby Kittens While — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Medford, New Jersey, 1973, showing a mother cat grooming her kittens in a dimly lit room. The clip has a strong purple color cast and heavy film grain, characteristic of old Super 8 film. A small kitten is visible inside a cardboard box marked with the number 33, while the mother cat moves around the floor, licking and tending to her young. The handheld camera captures intimate, candid moments of feline behavior, with a grainy, nostalgic quality and soft focus typical of home movies from the era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121083636

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1390 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: xmas,wedding,kittens
Reel-level year note: 1973-1974
Reel-level location note: medford
Date: 1973 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Medford, New Jersey, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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: 1970s 8mm home-movie footage suited to documentary or educational requests for domestic animal care, household pets, and intimate family-film texture without people visible.
Period detail: The clip is supported as Medford, New Jersey in 1973, with visible era clues limited to the 8mm home-movie look, dim interior flooring, and a plain cardboard box marked with the number 33.
Home-movie behavior: The unstaged value is the close household observation of a mother cat tending to kittens while the handheld camera stays near the floor.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a mother cat, small kittens, a cardboard box with the number 33, dim carpeted flooring, soft shadows, edge framing, and purple-tinted film grain.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, soft focus, strong purple-blue color shift, low interior exposure, and slight handheld instability that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, memory beat, or quiet domestic insert for animal care, pet ownership, or family-home atmosphere.
Historical context: The scene documents ordinary household pet care in a private-feeling interior, with no visible people, landmarks, or broader public event context in the sampled frames.
Research note: Rights review should note no visible people or likeness issues in the frames, while the numbered cardboard box may require brand or marking review and copyright clearance remains separate from property or trademark concerns.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1970s 8mm mother cat grooming kittens, Medford New Jersey home movie pets, vintage Super 8 kittens in cardboard box, and domestic animal care archive footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1973 Medford or New Jersey home-movie interiors, and then with broader vintage pet, kitten, and domestic animal-care footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Medford, New Jersey 8mm frame showing a small kitten beside or partly inside a cardboard box marked 33 on a dim floor with heavy purple film cast. — Kitten by the numbered cardboard box.

1973 Medford, New Jersey 8mm frame showing a mother cat leaning over a small kitten on the floor in a dim interior with soft focus and purple-blue film color. — Mother cat tends to a kitten on the floor.

1973 Medford, New Jersey 8mm frame showing the mother cat close to a kitten on the floor, likely grooming or checking it, with visible grain and low interior exposure. — Mother cat bends toward her kitten.

1973 Medford, New Jersey 8mm frame showing a mother cat standing near a small kitten on the floor, with the scene partly obscured by soft focus, grain, and purple film shift. — Mother cat remains beside the kitten.

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