Laguna Hills California USA-1971: Lion Cubs Being Pet Near The Water Watching

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

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Lion Cubs Being Pet Near The Water Watching — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a woman in a patterned blouse and dark hat gently petting a group of lion cubs on a grassy enclosure. The cubs, young and playful, rest closely together under a thatched shelter near a water feature. In earlier frames, a large animal splashes in the water, creating white foam. The footage has the warm, slightly faded color palette and grain of classic Super 8 film, evoking a nostalgic 1970s family memory.

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: 123060144

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 California home-movie requests involving visitor encounters with captive wildlife, animal parks, or family travel footage for documentary inserts.
Period detail: The patterned blouse, dark hat, 8mm color stock, and casual animal-encounter setting may show early 1970s leisure and tourism visual cues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor perspective, watching a woman quietly pet resting lion cubs while another animal splashes nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include lion cubs on grass, a woman in a patterned blouse and dark hat, a thatched shade structure, vertical posts, water, foam, and enclosure fencing.
Film character: The footage carries warm faded color, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and handheld framing consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, memory beat, or transition between family travel, animal attraction, and 1970s leisure sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents a casual visitor interaction with captive young big cats, reflecting a form of animal attraction experience visible in the footage.
Research note: People are visible and captive animals appear in an enclosure, so likeness, location, animal-use, and property context should be reviewed separately from copyright.
Research search match: Search matches include 1971 8mm lion cub petting, Laguna Hills animal attraction home movie, 1970s California wildlife enclosure, and vintage family travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel animal-park scenes, then with Laguna Hills or 1971 California travel footage, then with broader 1970s captive wildlife or family outing clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 8mm frame from Laguna Hills showing a large animal partly submerged and splashing in water near an enclosure edge. — A large animal churns the water, producing white foam within the enclosure.

1971 Laguna Hills home-movie frame showing a woman seated under shade beside resting lion cubs near water and fencing. — A woman sits beside a group of resting lion cubs in a grassy enclosure.

1971 8mm frame from Laguna Hills showing a visitor seated among lion cubs beneath a shaded structure in a grassy enclosure. — The seated woman gently rests a hand near the cubs as they lie together on the grass.

Close 1971 Laguna Hills frame showing several lion cubs resting together on grass beside a seated woman in a patterned blouse. — Several lion cubs rest closely together at the woman's side in the shaded enclosure.

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