Laguna Hills California USA-1971: Male Lion Resting With His Family In Zoo Enclosure

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

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Male Lion Resting With His Family In Zoo Enclosure — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a male lion resting and interacting with his pride in a zoo enclosure. The lion, with a full mane, lies on the dirt ground near a palm tree, while lionesses rest nearby. The footage, viewed through a dark frame suggesting a window or barrier, shows naturalistic behavior under bright sunlight, with visible film grain and warm color tones characteristic of Super 8 home movies. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century wildlife observation.

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: 123057355

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: This 1971 8mm zoo clip supports archive requests for 1970s visitor-shot wildlife observation, animal enclosure cutaways, and family home-movie views of lions in California.
Period detail: The warm 8mm color, soft focus, handheld framing, and zoo barrier viewpoint may show a 1970s amateur visitor perspective rather than a staged wildlife production.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the value of an unstaged visitor view, watching a male lion rest near lionesses through a dark foreground barrier.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a maned male lion, resting lionesses, dirt ground, palm trunk and fronds, green enclosure planting, bright sun, and dark frame edges.
Film character: The clip carries a physical 8mm texture with visible grain, warm color shift, soft exposure, slight blur, and handheld framing from the original home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief animal cutaway, zoo-memory insert, 1970s family-travel transition, or quiet observational beat in a wildlife or leisure sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects a visitor's view of lions in a zoo enclosure, with the animals seen at rest in a planted habitat under bright daylight.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright, zoo-property context, and any institutional permissions needed for final use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1971 8mm lion zoo footage, 1970s California zoo home movie, male lion with lionesses, and vintage wildlife enclosure cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Laguna Hills or 1971 California zoo material, and then with broader 1970s animal or family travel clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Laguna Hills 8mm frame showing a maned male lion seated near resting lionesses beside a palm trunk in a zoo enclosure. — A maned male lion sits near lionesses resting on the dirt beside a palm tree.

1971 Laguna Hills 8mm frame of a male lion lying with lionesses nearby, seen through a dark foreground barrier in a zoo setting. — The male lion lies near the pride while the enclosure is partly framed by a dark barrier.

1971 Laguna Hills 8mm frame showing a reclining male lion with lionesses resting close by in a sunlit zoo enclosure. — The lion reclines with lionesses clustered nearby on the sunlit dirt ground.

1971 Laguna Hills 8mm frame of a male lion resting with lionesses nearby, viewed through dark foreground framing in a zoo enclosure. — A male lion rests with lionesses in a planted enclosure, partly obscured by foreground framing.

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