Laguna Hills California USA-1971: A Male Lion And Cub Resting On Rocks At A Zoo

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

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A Male Lion And Cub Resting On Rocks At A Zoo — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a male lion with a full mane and a young lion cub resting together on sun-drenched rocks at a zoo. The scene is viewed through a dark frame, likely from a vehicle window, with a parked car visible in the background. The lions lie calmly in the heat, surrounded by sparse greenery and dry earth, evoking a nostalgic 1970s wildlife viewing experience. The footage features natural film grain and warm color tones typical of Super 8 home movies.

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: 123056995

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: 1971 8mm zoo footage supports documentary or educational requests for California animal attractions, big cats, and visitor-view wildlife scenes from the early 1970s.
Period detail: The parked car, warm color stock, and visitor vantage through a dark frame may show a 1970s drive-through or open zoo viewing setup in Laguna Hills.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged visitor home movie, watching lions rest quietly from behind a vehicle or viewing barrier.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a maned male lion, a young cub, a second lion at frame edge, sunlit rocks, dry ground, sparse greenery, a parked car, and dark window framing.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft grain, warm exposure, slight blur, and contact-sheet framing that give the animal scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, animal insert, zoo memory beat, or transition into a sequence about family tourism or captive wildlife viewing.
Historical context: The scene reflects a casual early-1970s zoo visit where large cats are filmed resting in a dry outdoor enclosure rather than performing for camera.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright and any zoo location or property permissions should be reviewed separately from likeness concerns.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1971 8mm lion zoo footage, Laguna Hills California big cats, vintage home movie zoo animals, and Super 8 lion cub resting.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Laguna Hills or 1971 California zoo material, then broader 1970s wildlife and family travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Laguna Hills zoo frame showing a lion resting in shade near rocks, with a parked car partly visible beyond the enclosure. — A lion rests low beside a tree while a car appears in the background beyond the zoo enclosure.

1971 Laguna Hills zoo view of a maned lion and young cub resting together on rocks, seen through dark foreground framing. — A maned lion lies beside a young cub on sunlit rocks in a dry zoo setting.

1971 Laguna Hills frame showing a maned lion near a cub and pale rocks, with shrubs and dry ground behind them. — The male lion faces toward the cub while both remain among rocks and sparse greenery.

1971 Laguna Hills zoo footage frame with a maned lion lying near a cub, framed by rocks, dry soil, and low shrubs. — A maned lion rests close to a cub in the sunlit enclosure, partly obscured by dark foreground framing.

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