California USA-1984: Magenta Tulips and Cat in a Spring Garden

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

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Magenta Tulips and Cat in a Spring Garden — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1984 captures vibrant magenta tulips in close-up, their petals unfurling against lush green leaves. The footage transitions to a sunlit garden where a cat lounges on a wooden surface, surrounded by blooming tulips and hyacinths. Shot on 8mm film, the clip features natural daylight, rich color saturation, and authentic film grain, evoking a nostalgic, domestic atmosphere of a California spring day.

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: 123034249

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: Useful for 1980s California home-movie requests needing spring garden inserts, domestic nature cutaways, or non-people lifestyle texture.
Period detail: The visible material shows tulips, hyacinths, a lounging cat, and saturated 8mm color, with no clear landmarks or dated objects beyond the supplied 1984 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera lingers on flowers and a relaxed pet in an unstaged backyard-garden moment, reflecting casual home observation rather than a formal scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include magenta tulips, green leaves, hyacinths, bright garden light, a wooden edge, grass, dark frame borders, and a reclining cat.
Film character: The clip has a physical 8mm look with rich color saturation, soft focus shifts, visible grain, uneven exposure, and contact-print frame edges.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a springtime insert, domestic transition, garden cutaway, or quiet memory beat between family or place-based scenes.
Historical context: The footage documents a modest domestic garden view in California, emphasizing plants and a household pet rather than public events or identifiable people.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should be reviewed separately before reuse.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1984 8mm California garden, vintage home movie tulips, spring flowers cat, and 1980s backyard pet footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel garden or pet shots, then other California 1984 home movies, then broader 1980s spring nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close-up of magenta tulips and green leaves in a California garden, from supplied 1984 8mm home-movie footage. — Magenta tulips fill the frame in a close garden view.

Open magenta tulip framed by green leaves, shown in saturated 8mm color from the supplied 1984 California footage. — An open tulip is shown in bright garden light.

Large magenta tulip close-up with soft focus and visible 8mm grain, supported by the 1984 California clip metadata. — A tulip fills the frame with its petals and center visible.

A cat reclines beside a sunlit garden bed with tulips, hyacinths, green leaves, grass, and a wooden edge. — A cat lounges beside blooming garden flowers.

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