California USA-1984: Siamese Cat Eating Grass In Garden

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

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Siamese Cat Eating Grass In Garden — Clip Details

A Siamese cat with a light brown body and dark points grazes on lush green grass in a sun-dappled garden. Shot on 8mm film in 1984, this vintage home movie captures the cat's calm, natural behavior as it sniffs and nibbles the blades. The footage features authentic film grain, slight color fading, and a soft focus typical of Super 8 home movies. The scene evokes a quiet, nostalgic moment of domestic life in California during the 1980s.

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: 123033951

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 animal footage for editors needing a quiet domestic cat cutaway, nature insert, or everyday garden detail.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1980s domestic garden setting, with era mainly supported by the 1984 8mm metadata rather than visible dated objects.
Home-movie behavior: The cat appears unstaged as it sniffs and nibbles grass at close range, giving the clip the observational feel of a household home movie.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a Siamese cat, green lawn grass, sunlit garden plants, dark film-frame borders, and soft shadows.
Film character: The scan shows 8mm grain, soft focus, mild color shift, and uneven exposure that give the short animal scene physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, memory beat, garden transition, or calm domestic-life insert within a larger 1980s sequence.
Historical context: The clip reflects ordinary pet keeping and garden life in archival home-movie footage, without visible people, signage, or location-specific landmarks.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright and any property-context questions should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1984 8mm Siamese cat eating grass, California home movie cat in garden, and vintage pet footage on lawn.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1984 California home movies, then domestic pets, gardens, and quiet animal behavior.

Still Frames From This Clip

A Siamese cat in 1984 California home-movie footage bends toward sunlit green grass in a garden. — The cat lowers its head toward the grass at the start of the short garden clip.

The Siamese cat remains close to the lawn, sniffing or nibbling grass in the California garden scene. — A closer view shows the cat's dark face near the blades of grass.

A soft 8mm close-up frames the Siamese cat's dark face and whiskers among tall green grass. — The cat moves deeper into the grass, filling more of the frame.

Near the end of the clip, the Siamese cat faces down into dense grass in the 1984 garden footage. — The cat continues grazing or sniffing as the home-movie shot ends.

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