Laguna Beach California USA-1979: Person Petting Gray Cat in Backyard

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Year1979
Decade1970s
LocationLaguna Beach, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1979 California

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Person Petting Gray Cat in Backyard — Clip Details

A person in a white shirt and blue pants bends to pet a gray cat in a grassy backyard. The cat lounges near shrubbery and a concrete wall, then moves into the bushes. Shot on 8mm film in 1979, this home movie captures a quiet, intimate moment with warm, slightly faded colors and natural film grain. The scene evokes nostalgia and domestic tranquility, typical of vintage home footage from the late 1970s.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123023197

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.

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: 1979 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: Laguna Beach, California, United States 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 requests needing late-1970s Southern California home-movie footage of a quiet backyard pet interaction for documentary, education, or memory-based edits.
Period detail: The clothing, warm color palette, backyard setting, and 8mm scan may show a casual domestic scene consistent with the supplied 1979 Laguna Beach metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged moment as a person bends down to pet a gray cat and follows its movement into nearby shrubs.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a person in a white shirt and blue pants, a gray cat, grass, shrubs, soil, branches, and a concrete wall.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, natural handheld framing, visible grain, slight fading, and contact-print texture typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a domestic cutaway, memory beat, animal insert, or gentle transition within a sequence about everyday home life.
Historical context: The scene reflects a small-scale backyard pet moment rather than a public event, with social context limited to casual home life in the supplied location and year.
Research note: A person is partially visible, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and property considerations should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1979 8mm backyard cat footage, Laguna Beach home movie pet scene, vintage person petting cat, or 1970s domestic animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1979 Laguna Beach home movies, then broader 1970s backyard, pet, and domestic-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In supplied 1979 Laguna Beach home-movie footage, a person in blue pants bends toward a gray cat in a grassy backyard. — A person reaches down to pet a gray cat in the backyard grass.

The person remains bent over the gray cat in the grassy yard, with shrubbery and a concrete wall behind them. — The gray cat stands near the wall as the person strokes its back.

The gray cat is partly obscured among backyard shrubs, soil, roots, and a concrete wall in the supplied home-movie scene. — The cat moves from the grass into the bushes along the wall.

At the end of the clip, the gray cat is mostly under the shrubbery near the wall, framed by branches and yard debris. — The cat settles partly out of view beneath the backyard shrubs.

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