Laguna Hills California USA-1971: Lioness Walking With Her Cub In Zoo Enclosure

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationLaguna Hills, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1971 California

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Lioness Walking With Her Cub In Zoo Enclosure — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a lioness and her cub walking through a grassy enclosure with palm trees and rocky terrain in the background. The footage, likely from a zoo or wildlife park in Laguna Hills, California, shows the lioness leading her cub across the frame while another lion rests nearby. The warm, slightly faded colors and visible film grain give the clip a nostalgic, retro quality. The scene is framed by dark borders, suggesting it was filmed through a window or viewing port. This authentic archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic projects about wildlife and mid-century American life.

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: 123056190

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 1758 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: III-02,sacto state
Reel-level year note: 1971
Reel-level location note: california,sacramento
Date: 1971 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: Laguna Hills, 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 1970s archival requests needing visitor-shot zoo or wildlife park footage of lions in a California setting.
Period detail: The scene may show an early 1970s zoo enclosure, with palm trees, rocks, grass and dark viewing-port edges visible in the 8mm frame.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the value of a visitor home movie, observing a lioness and cub from behind a barrier without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lioness, a cub, another resting lion, grass, rocks, palm trees, dry hillside and dark frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight fading, gate edges and handheld framing that preserve the physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife cutaway, zoo visit insert, transition or memory beat within a 1970s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The clip records a family-visitor view of captive big cats, reflecting recreational wildlife display without making claims about the facility.
Research note: No people, logos or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location permissions and animal-display context should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1971 8mm lioness and cub footage, Laguna Hills zoo animals, vintage California wildlife park home movie and captive lions.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then Laguna Hills or 1971 California material, then broader vintage zoo and lion footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Laguna Hills home-movie frame showing a lioness and cub in a zoo-like grassy enclosure with rocks and palms behind them. — Lioness and cub move across a grassy enclosure as another lion rests near the rocks.

1971 Laguna Hills 8mm frame of a lioness leading her cub through a grassy zoo-style enclosure with palms and rocky ground. — The lioness leads the cub through the enclosure, with palms and dry hillside behind them.

1971 Laguna Hills visitor-shot frame showing a lioness and cub walking in a captive enclosure with another lion partly visible at left. — Lioness and cub pass in front of rocks while another lion remains partly visible at the left edge.

1971 Laguna Hills 8mm frame with a lioness and cub moving across grass near rocks, palms and a partly seen resting lion. — The lioness and cub continue across the enclosure, framed by dark edges from the filming position.

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