Laguna Hills California USA-1971: Male And Female Lion By Palm Trees

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

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Male And Female Lion By Palm Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a male and female lion in a zoo enclosure. The male lion with a full mane lies on the ground while the female stands nearby, both framed by palm trees. In the background, a classic white American car from the era is parked on a paved road. The footage has a warm, slightly faded color palette and visible film grain, characteristic of Super 8 home movies. The scene is viewed through a dark frame, suggesting it was filmed from inside a vehicle or shelter. This authentic archival footage is ideal for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical projects.

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: 123056613

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 zoo animal footage, Southern California leisure context, or a short documentary cutaway of lions in a visitor-viewed enclosure.
Period detail: The visible white American car, warm color stock, palm trees, and 8mm framing support an early 1970s home-movie setting in Laguna Hills, California.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a visitor-shot home movie, observing the lions through dark foreground framing rather than staging them for a formal wildlife scene.
What appears in frame: A male lion with a mane, a lioness, palm tree trunks, dry ground, a paved road, and a white parked car are visible across the four frames.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm archive texture through soft focus, warm faded color, visible grain, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for zoo visits, 1970s travel, captive wildlife, or California family-film sequences.
Historical context: The scene shows captive lions in a palm-lined zoo or animal-park setting, with the parked car adding everyday visitor-era context without proving a specific venue.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but animal-park property, location claims, and copyright status should still be checked before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1971 8mm lions at a zoo, Laguna Hills California animal park footage, male lion and lioness by palm trees, and vintage zoo home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then other Laguna Hills 1971 footage, then broader 1970s zoo, captive wildlife, or California travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Laguna Hills 8mm frame showing a male lion resting as a lioness stands beside him, with palm trunks and a white car beyond the enclosure. — Male lion and lioness seen near palm trees, with a parked white car in the background.

1971 Laguna Hills home-movie frame of a lioness standing near a male lion on the ground, framed by palm trees with a white car behind them. — Lioness stands beside the resting male lion in a palm-lined zoo enclosure.

1971 Laguna Hills 8mm frame with the lioness standing over or near the male lion, palm trunks behind them and a partial white car beyond the enclosure. — The lioness remains close to the male lion as the home-movie camera holds through dark foreground edges.

1971 Laguna Hills frame showing a lioness beside the resting male lion, with palm trunks, dry ground, a paved road, and a white car in the background. — Final frame holds on the lioness and male lion beside palm trees in the animal enclosure.

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