California USA-1984: Cat Cleans Itself While Sitting On A Flower Bed In A

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

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Cat Cleans Itself While Sitting On A Flower Bed In A — Clip Details

A Siamese cat lounges on a wooden garden border in a sun-drenched California garden, grooming itself with focused licks. Vibrant red tulips and purple hyacinths bloom in the background, their colors rich against the green foliage. Shot on 8mm film in 1984, the footage captures a quiet, peaceful moment with natural film grain and warm, saturated tones. The cat's light brown body contrasts with its dark face and ears as it relaxes in the sunlight, embodying classic 1980s home movie nostalgia.

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: 123034272

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: Useful for 1980s California home-movie requests needing a quiet domestic garden animal cutaway or spring-flower insert.
Period detail: The scene may show a 1984 home garden with tulips, hyacinths, timber edging, saturated 8mm color, and no visible modern objects.
Home-movie behavior: The footage preserves an unstaged pet moment as the cat rests, turns, and grooms itself in direct sunlight beside a flower bed.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a Siamese-looking cat, wooden garden edging, red tulips, purple hyacinths, green leaves, soil, lawn, and deep shadow.
Film character: The 8mm scan has visible grain, high-contrast sunlight, dense shadows, soft focus, and warm saturated color typical of small-gauge home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a gentle cutaway, memory beat, domestic-life insert, or transition between broader garden or family-home scenes.
Historical context: The clip gives visual context for everyday 1980s home landscaping and pet life without showing people, signage, or identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are indicated, but copyright, location context, and any property-related permissions should still be checked before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1984 8mm California garden footage, Siamese cat grooming, tulips and hyacinths, home movie pet cutaway, and sunny flower bed.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other California 1984 garden material, then broader 1980s pets, flowers, and home-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A Siamese-looking cat rests in a sunny California garden flower bed, with red tulips and purple hyacinths behind it. — Cat lounging on a garden border among bright spring flowers.

The cat shifts upright in the sunlit 1984 California garden, framed by tulips, hyacinths, and dense green foliage. — Cat sitting up on the wooden edge of a planted flower bed.

A cat grooms itself on a wooden garden border in California, surrounded by red tulips and purple spring flowers. — Cat grooming on a flower-bed edge in bright sunlight.

The cat remains seated on the sunlit wooden border of a California garden, with tulips and hyacinths filling the flower bed. — Cat resting at the edge of a colorful garden bed.

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