Laguna Hills California USA-1971: Lion Cubs Laying Down In Front Of A Palm Tree

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

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Lion Cubs Laying Down In Front Of A Palm Tree — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a group of lion cubs resting in the shade of a palm tree at a roadside wildlife attraction. The scene is viewed through a dark frame, suggesting a car window, with classic American cars from the era visible on the road behind. The cubs lie sprawled on the dusty ground, appearing relaxed and warm in the sun. The footage exhibits natural film grain and color fading typical of Super 8 home movies, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-1970s Americana and roadside zoo culture.

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: 123056790

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 Southern California archive requests needing roadside wildlife attraction, zoo culture, or animal cutaway material for documentary and education edits.
Period detail: The cars, 8mm color, dusty roadside setting, and metadata-supported 1971 Laguna Hills location place the scene in early 1970s California.
Home-movie behavior: The dark window-like framing suggests a visitor filming from inside a vehicle as lion cubs rest nearby, giving the clip an unstaged home-movie viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include lion cubs, a palm tree trunk, dusty ground, roadside grass, passing vintage cars, shade, and dark foreground framing.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, warm faded color, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an insert, roadside attraction cutaway, heat or animal-rest beat, or transition within a 1970s California sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects a visitor-access wildlife attraction setting, with animals close to a road and period cars passing behind them.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are visible or flagged, but animal venue context and underlying footage copyright still require normal review.
Research search match: Searches such as 1971 Laguna Hills lion cubs, 1970s roadside zoo, 8mm wildlife attraction, and California home movie animals may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Laguna Hills 1971 material, then broader 1970s California roadside wildlife or zoo footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Laguna Hills 8mm frame showing lion cubs lying in shade near a palm tree, with period cars on the road beyond. — Lion cubs rest on dusty ground near a palm tree as cars pass in the background.

Lion cubs rest in a shaded roadside area in Laguna Hills, with a brown early-1970s car visible behind them. — Resting lion cubs remain near the palm trunks while a car moves along the road behind.

A soft 8mm frame shows several lion cubs around a palm tree base, viewed through dark foreground framing at a roadside attraction. — Several cubs cluster around the palm tree base in the shaded roadside enclosure area.

1971 Laguna Hills home-movie frame of lion cubs resting near palm trunks, with a road and partial car visible beyond the animals. — Cubs lie and sit in the shade near the palms, framed by a dark foreground edge.

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