California USA-1984: Grey Cat In Flower Garden

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

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Grey Cat In Flower Garden — Clip Details

A grey cat explores a vibrant spring garden in this 8mm home movie from 1984. The cat, with a light-colored coat, moves through a colorful flower bed filled with red and pink tulips and purple hyacinths. Shot on vintage 8mm film, the footage captures the animal's curious movements as it sniffs the blooms, with natural sunlight highlighting the green foliage against a dark background. The grainy texture and warm color palette evoke a nostalgic, personal memory of a quiet moment in a California garden.

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: 123034882

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 brief animal-in-garden cutaway for documentary, education, or personal-memory sequences.
Period detail: The frames show color 8mm garden footage from metadata-dated 1984, with tulips, hyacinths, and a grey cat rather than strong built-environment period markers.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged domestic observation as the cat moves through flowers at close range, filmed from a low garden-level home-movie perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a grey cat, red and pink tulips, purple hyacinths, green leaves, bright sunlight, a dark background, and soft 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, saturated spring colors, uneven exposure, and slight softness that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a gentle insert, transition, garden cutaway, or memory beat between broader domestic or California lifestyle scenes.
Historical context: The clip reflects a private 1980s home-garden moment, showing everyday attention to pets and seasonal flowers without identifying a specific neighborhood or property.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright and any property-related context should still be checked against the source record and license terms.
Research search match: Search matches include 1984 8mm grey cat in flower garden, California home movie tulips, vintage cat garden footage, and Super 8 spring flowers animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other California 1984 home movies, then related garden, pet, spring flower, and domestic cutaway footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A grey cat walks through a California flower bed with red tulips, purple hyacinths, and green leaves in 1984 8mm home-movie footage. — Grey cat passes behind spring flowers in a sunlit garden.

The grey cat is partly obscured among red and pink tulips and green foliage in the metadata-dated 1984 California garden footage. — Cat moves deeper into the flower bed behind tulips and leaves.

A grey cat is mostly concealed by spring flowers, with tulips and hyacinths filling the foreground of the 1984 California home-movie frame. — Flowers dominate the foreground as the cat moves behind them.

The grey cat crosses the darker back edge of the California flower bed, with tulips, hyacinths, and green foliage in the foreground. — Cat slips behind the flower bed at the end of the shot.

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