Laguna Beach California USA-1979: Black And White Cat Flicking Tail And Person Holding Small Terrier Puppy

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

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Black And White Cat Flicking Tail And Person Holding... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1979, this vintage home movie captures a black and white cat standing alert in a grassy backyard, its tail flicking as it looks toward the camera. The scene shifts to a person with curly hair, wearing blue jeans and a light shirt, gently cradling a small, fluffy terrier puppy on the lawn. The footage shows intimate, candid moments of pets in a domestic outdoor setting, with stone patio furniture visible in the background. The warm, grainy quality and slight motion blur are characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the late 1970s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123023299

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 1970s home-movie requests needing domestic pet cutaways, backyard animal behavior, or everyday California family-life texture.
Period detail: The clothing, lawn setting, stone patio furniture, and 8mm color rendering support a late-1970s home-movie feel in Laguna Beach, as noted in the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves unstaged pet observation, moving from a watchful cat to a person gently holding a small terrier puppy on the grass.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a black and white cat, grassy lawn, stone patio furniture, a curly-haired person in blue jeans, hands cradling a small terrier puppy, and soft backyard foliage.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, muted color, slight motion blur, and handheld exposure shifts that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief pet-life insert, domestic memory beat, backyard transition, or warm cutaway within a 1970s family reel sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects casual companion-animal moments in an outdoor household setting without supporting broader claims beyond the visible backyard activity.
Research note: People are partially visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, likeness, and property questions should be evaluated separately.
Research search match: Search phrases include 1979 8mm home movie pets, Laguna Beach backyard cat, person holding terrier puppy, 1970s domestic animal footage, and Super 8 family pets.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Laguna Beach 1979 home movies, then broader 1970s family pet and backyard-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Laguna Beach 1979 home-movie footage, a black and white cat stands alert on grass with stone patio furniture behind it. — A black and white cat pauses on a backyard lawn near stone patio furniture.

A curly-haired person in blue jeans crouches on a Laguna Beach lawn while gently holding a small terrier-type puppy. — A person crouches in the grass and cradles a small puppy.

Close 8mm frame of a small terrier-type puppy being held gently over grass in the Laguna Beach backyard scene. — Hands support a small puppy close to the lawn.

Soft, motion-blurred close-up of a person holding a small terrier-type puppy during the 1979 Laguna Beach home-movie pet scene. — A handheld close-up shows the puppy held against the grass.

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