California USA-1984: Grey Cat With Collar Playing And Smelling Flowers In Garden

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Year1984
Decade1980s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1984 California

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Grey Cat With Collar Playing And Smelling Flowers In Garden — Clip Details

A grey cat with a collar explores a sunlit garden in this 1984 8mm home movie. The cat sniffs vibrant purple hyacinths and pink tulips among lush green foliage, its curious movements captured in warm, nostalgic color. Shot on vintage 8mm film, the footage shows natural film grain and slight color shifts, evoking a personal, intimate moment from a California spring. The cat pauses to look upward, its attention drawn to something above, before continuing to investigate the blooming flowers. This authentic slice of domestic life offers rich archival footage for documentaries, nostalgic content, or period pieces.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123033931

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 1562 · Super 8 · 3″ reel
Original reel label: calif trip
Reel-level year note: 1984
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1984 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: California, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1980s California home-movie footage for productions needing a domestic pet, spring garden, or quiet household memory cutaway.
Period detail: The clip may show 1980s home-garden styling, with bright tulips, hyacinth-like flowers, low borders, and a collared cat filmed on 8mm color stock.
Home-movie behavior: The cat's sniffing, pausing, and looking upward read as unstaged household observation from a close home-movie perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a grey collared cat, green garden leaves, purple flower spikes, pink tulips, paving stones, dark frame edges, and sunlit foliage.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, saturated color shifts, soft focus, and uneven exposure that give the scene physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, memory beat, seasonal transition, or animal cutaway within domestic-life or California lifestyle sequences.
Historical context: The scene reflects a private garden moment rather than a public event, showing an everyday pet interaction with ornamental spring flowers.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright and any property-related use should still be reviewed for the intended project.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1984 8mm cat in garden, California home movie pet footage, grey cat smelling flowers, and vintage spring garden cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1984 California home movies, then broader pet, garden, and domestic-life archive material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A grey collared cat investigates low garden flowers and green leaves in 1984 California 8mm home-movie footage. — The cat leans into the garden bed, partly turned away among bright leaves and flowers.

The collared cat pauses beside green garden plants and looks upward in a sunlit California home-movie frame. — The cat sits at the right of the frame, alert beside flowering plants.

A grey collared cat turns toward the camera among purple flowers and bright green foliage in vintage 8mm footage. — The cat turns forward in the garden, its face lit against dense spring foliage.

The cat lowers its head to sniff purple flowers beside broad green leaves in the 1984 California garden footage. — The cat resumes investigating the flowers, head lowered near the garden bed.

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