California USA-1984: Gray Cat Smelling Tulips In Garden

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

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Gray Cat Smelling Tulips In Garden — Clip Details

A gray cat wearing a collar explores a vibrant garden filled with blooming tulips in shades of purple, yellow, and red. Shot on 8mm film in 1984, this vintage home movie captures the cat sniffing and moving through the colorful flowers under natural sunlight. The footage features authentic film grain, slight color fading, and a nostalgic, intimate feel typical of personal home recordings from the era. The setting appears to be a residential garden in California, with lush green foliage and a peaceful, quiet atmosphere. This authentic 8mm home movie is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects about pets, gardens, and 1980s Americana.

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: 123034046

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1984 California 8mm clip supports archival requests for domestic pet life, spring gardens, and quiet 1980s home-movie cutaways.
Period detail: Visible clues are limited to the 8mm home-movie look, the cat's collar, and a residential-style tulip bed that may show a California garden in 1984.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged value of a household pet wandering and sniffing flowers while the camera observes from close garden level.
What appears in frame: Across the four frames are a gray collared cat, purple tulips, yellow and red blooms, green leaves, bright sunlight, and dark garden background.
Film character: The scan shows soft 8mm grain, strong sunlight, color shift, and slight exposure variation that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief insert, gentle transition, pet cutaway, or memory beat within sequences about homes, gardens, animals, or spring.
Historical context: The clip offers small-scale domestic context rather than a public event, showing a pet among ornamental flowers in a residential outdoor setting.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, and any property permissions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1984 California 8mm cat in tulips, vintage home movie garden pet, gray cat smelling flowers, and 1980s spring garden footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other California 1984 home movies, then broader pet, garden, tulip, and springtime domestic footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Gray collared cat moves beside purple and yellow tulips in a California garden scene from 1984 home-movie footage. — A gray cat passes through a sunlit tulip bed with purple and yellow blooms.

Gray collared cat sniffs low among tulip stems and leaves in a 1984 California garden home movie. — The cat lowers its head into the flowers while tulips fill the background.

Gray collared cat crosses the foreground before purple, yellow, and red tulips in California 1984 home-movie footage. — The cat walks across the lower frame with colorful tulips behind it.

The gray cat is partly cropped at the bottom while purple, yellow, and red tulips stand in bright garden light. — Only part of the cat remains in view as the tulip bed dominates the frame.

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