California USA-1984: Raccoon Foraging In Nighttime Woods

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

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Raccoon Foraging In Nighttime Woods — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1984, this vintage home movie captures a raccoon foraging in a wooded area at night in California. The animal moves through dappled moonlight and shadow, its fur catching the light as it explores the forest floor. The footage has a grainy, nostalgic quality with natural film grain and slight motion blur, characteristic of Super 8 home movies. The raccoon’s movements are cautious and deliberate as it navigates the underbrush, offering a rare glimpse into nocturnal wildlife behavior in a natural habitat.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123035206

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 wildlife requests needing brief nocturnal home-movie footage of a raccoon moving through wooded ground cover.
Period detail: The frames show 8mm-era exposure, grain, and contact-sheet framing, while the specific 1984 California context is supported by clip metadata rather than visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged observer quality, with the camera catching a wild animal briefly as it forages in dim woods.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a raccoon, dry grass, leafy undergrowth, dark tree shade, bright patches of light, and black film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries strong 8mm texture through grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, motion blur, and high-contrast patches of light and shadow.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife cutaway, nighttime nature insert, or quiet memory beat within a larger home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents casual amateur filming of local wildlife, with the animal seen in a natural wooded setting rather than a staged enclosure.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still evaluate copyright status and any location-specific use concerns separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1984 8mm California raccoon footage, vintage home-movie nocturnal wildlife, and archival forest animal cutaways.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other footage from the same reel, then 1984 California material, then broader vintage home-movie wildlife or wooded night scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A raccoon forages in patchy light and shadow in wooded California home-movie footage from 1984. — Raccoon moves cautiously through grass and leaf cover under dappled light.

The raccoon turns away from the camera amid grass and undergrowth in 1984 California 8mm footage. — Raccoon stands partly turned away in a shadowed patch of woodland.

A raccoon lowers its head to forage among grass and leaves in grainy 1984 California home-movie footage. — Raccoon bends down to search the ground among dry grass and leaves.

The raccoon appears partly hidden by shadow and plants at the edge of a lit grassy patch in 1984 California footage. — Raccoon slips into darker foliage beside a bright patch of grass.

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