California USA-1969: Mare And Foal Grazing In Grass Field

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 California

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Mare And Foal Grazing In Grass Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a black mare and her foal grazing in a sun-drenched grassy field in California. The footage, framed by dark borders typical of Super 8 projection, shows the adult horse feeding while the young foal stands close, its dark coat contrasting with the green pasture. In later frames, the foal moves independently, its legs still unsteady as it explores the grassy terrain. The warm, slightly faded color palette and natural film grain evoke a nostalgic, authentic slice of Americana from the late 1960s.

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: 123045979

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 1343 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #9,easter,grandma granpa visit,spring rainbow,opening day,little league,baseball
Reel-level year note: 1969
Reel-level location note: clarendon hills, illinois, woodland hills, california
Date: 1969 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 1960s California home-movie requests needing rural animal life, mare-and-foal behavior, or pastoral Americana cutaways for documentary or editorial use.
Period detail: The 8mm color, soft focus, heavy grain, and projected-frame borders support a late-1960s home-movie reading without showing specific landmarks or dated objects.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a family filmer observing a mare and young foal at pasture, with the foal staying close and then moving on its own.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a black mare, a young foal, green grass, sunlit pasture, dark frame borders, soft shadows, and slight exposure variation.
Film character: The footage carries dense 8mm grain, muted green color, soft registration, and dark projection edges that give the animal scene clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet insert, rural transition, animal-life cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about California, farms, childhood, or domestic animals.
Historical context: The scene reflects a small-scale pastoral view of California in 1969, focused on everyday animal care rather than a named ranch, event, or public place.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, though copyright and any property or animal-location permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 California 8mm horse footage, mare and foal home movie, vintage pasture animals, and late-1960s rural Americana.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other California 1969 home movies, and then broader vintage farm, pasture, horse, and family-rural-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 California 8mm frame showing a black mare and young foal close together in a sunlit grass field. — A mare grazes while the foal stays close beside her in the pasture.

1969 California home-movie frame of a dark mare feeding while a foal stands beside her in pasture grass. — The adult horse lowers her head to graze as the foal remains near her side.

1969 California 8mm frame showing a young foal standing independently on a grassy patch in soft sunlight. — The foal stands by itself on the grass, appearing slightly unsteady.

1969 California home-movie frame of a foal standing alone in pasture grass with dark projection borders visible. — The foal pauses alone in the field as the handheld 8mm frame holds on the pasture.

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