Los Angeles California USA-1962: Two Matadors Fighting A Single Bull

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationLos Angeles, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 California

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Two Matadors Fighting A Single Bull — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic bullfighting scene in Los Angeles, California. Two matadors in traditional white suits and black hats perform with vibrant pink capes, skillfully maneuvering around a powerful dark bull in a sandy arena. The red-walled ring and distant spectators add to the authentic atmosphere, with the grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 footage enhancing its nostalgic, archival feel. The sequence shows the intense choreography of the fight, including close passes and the bull charging, all framed by the film's natural borders.

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: 123687432

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 1236 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: disneyland
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1962 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: Los Angeles, 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 1960s archival requests needing Los Angeles home-movie footage of a staged bullfighting performance for documentary, museum, or editorial context.
Period detail: The red-walled arena, spectators, white matador costumes, dark hats, and pink capes may show a mid-century public performance recorded from the stands.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a spectator-shot home movie, observing the action from a distance as the bull and matadors move across the sandy ring.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two matadors, a dark bull, pink and yellow capes, sandy arena floor, red arena walls, distant spectators, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, muted color, gate edges, and slight handheld framing that place it clearly within physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for mid-century spectacle, animal performance, travel, or public-entertainment sequences.
Historical context: The footage documents a bullfighting-style arena performance in Los Angeles without confirming the venue, event name, performers, or audience identities.
Research note: People and performers are visible, so copyright, likeness, venue, and animal-performance context should be reviewed separately before commercial use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 8mm Los Angeles bullfighting footage, vintage matadors with bull, home movie arena performance, and mid-century animal spectacle.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel arena footage, then other Los Angeles 1962 material, then broader 1960s public performance or animal-event clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Los Angeles 8mm frame showing two matadors with pink capes maneuvering around a dark bull in a red-walled arena. — Two matadors position their capes as the bull moves across the sandy ring.

1962 Los Angeles home-movie frame with two matadors holding pink capes near a dark bull, with spectators above the red arena wall. — The bull pauses near two caped matadors while spectators watch from above.

1962 Los Angeles 8mm frame showing a matador sweeping a pink and yellow cape as a dark bull passes close in the ring. — A matador draws the bull past the cape during a close pass in the ring.

1962 Los Angeles home-movie frame showing a dark bull between two matadors with capes against the red arena wall. — Two matadors work around the bull near the center of the sandy arena.

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