Medford New Jersey USA-1973: A Mother Cat Attempting To Clean Her Babies While

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

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A Mother Cat Attempting To Clean Her Babies While — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Medford, New Jersey, 1973, showing a mother cat grooming her kittens on a carpeted floor. The grainy, purple-tinted film captures the tender moment of a tabby mother cat licking and cleaning her small, fluffy kittens. The scene is intimate and domestic, with the cats' white paws and striped fur visible against the dark carpet. The footage has a nostalgic, authentic home movie quality with natural lighting and slight camera movement, offering a glimpse into a quiet family moment from the 1970s.

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: 121083769

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: 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 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: This 1973 Medford, New Jersey 8mm home-movie clip helps document domestic pet care and family interiors for productions needing a quiet 1970s household animal moment.
Period detail: The carpeted interior, soft household lighting, and color-shifted 8mm texture may show a modest early-1970s domestic setting, with the year and location supported by supplied metadata rather than visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The footage observes an unstaged mother cat grooming and managing her kittens as they squirm close to her on the floor.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tabby mother cat, small kittens, white paws, striped fur, a dark carpeted floor, partial shoes or household items near the frame edge, and strong black film-frame borders.
Film character: The scan carries pronounced 8mm grain, purple color fading, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing that reads as authentic home-movie film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, domestic cutaway, memory beat, or gentle transition within a sequence about pets, family life, or home interiors.
Historical context: The clip gives a small-scale view of household pet keeping in a private American home, with social context limited to the domestic interior and animal behavior visible on screen.
Research note: Rights review should account for copyright, private-property context, and the source flag indicating people may be visible, while likeness concerns are not evident in these sampled frames.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1970s 8mm home movie mother cat grooming kittens, Medford New Jersey domestic pet footage, tabby cat with kittens on carpet, and vintage home movie cats indoors.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Medford home interiors, and finally broader 1970s domestic pet or family-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1973 Medford, New Jersey home-movie footage, a tabby mother cat lies on a dark carpet while small kittens cluster close to her. — Mother cat with kittens on the carpet.

A tabby mother cat appears to groom or tend to kittens on a carpeted floor in the supplied 1973 Medford, New Jersey home-movie clip. — Mother cat tends to her kittens.

The mother cat and kittens shift on the carpet, with blurred motion and 8mm grain emphasizing the informal home-movie perspective. — Kittens squirm beside the mother cat.

A purple-tinted 8mm frame shows the tabby mother cat stretched on the carpet with kittens close against her in the domestic interior. — Mother cat lies beside her kittens.

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