Los Angeles California USA-1962: Bull Charging At Matador With Red Cape In Arena

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

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Bull Charging At Matador With Red Cape In Arena — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1962 captures a dramatic bullfight in Los Angeles, California. A matador in a traditional silver and pink suit skillfully maneuvers a red cape as a powerful black bull charges across the sandy arena. The footage, shot on Super 8 film, shows the intense confrontation with visible film grain and color shifts, highlighting the bull's horns and the matador's precise movements against a red barrier. The sequence documents the classic spectacle of bullfighting, offering authentic archival footage of a cultural event from the early 1960s.

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: 123755533

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: Fills a 1960s cultural-spectacle slot for documentary, sports-history, or ethnographic productions seeking authentic color 8mm footage of a mid-century bullfight.
Period detail: Circa 1962 8mm color stock shows a traditional traje de luces with gold embroidery, banderillas inserted in the bull, and a red wooden arena barrier consistent with mid-20th-century corrida practice.
Home-movie behavior: A spectator or amateur visitor filmed from the arena perimeter, capturing close-range charges and standoffs with an unsteady handheld camera.
What appears in frame: Black fighting bull, matador in gold-embroidered suit, red muleta cape, banderillas in bull's back, sandy arena floor, red wooden barrier, arena attendant behind barrier, and motion blur on a charging pass.
Film character: Saturated early-1960s 8mm color stock renders the crimson cape and red barrier intensely; motion blur on the charging pass and visible grain give the footage kinetic, period-authentic texture.
Edit role: The charging-pass shot functions as a high-energy action cutaway; the standoff frames work as tension-building inserts or a memory beat in a cultural history sequence.
Historical context: Bullfighting exhibitions were documented in the United States in this era; the specific venue and jurisdiction stated in the title should be independently verified against contemporaneous records.
Research note: Identifiable public performers may require likeness review under applicable law; the animal-harm context of traditional bullfighting may require editorial disclosure; location attribution needs independent verification.
Research search match: Researchers may search '1960s bullfight footage', 'vintage matador 8mm color', 'mid-century bullfighting USA', 'bull charging cape archival film', or 'corrida de toros 1962'.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from this reel; then with 1960s Southern California or Mexican border-region amateur footage; then with bullfighting or arena-sports footage from the same decade.

Still Frames From This Clip

Black bull charges at a matador in a light-colored suit swinging a red cape; circa 1962 8mm color footage of a bullfight, motion blur visible. — Bull charging the matador's red cape during a pass, circa 1962.

Banderilla-pierced black bull faces a matador in a gold traje de luces; second figure visible behind the red arena barrier; circa 1962 8mm color. — Matador and bull in a measured standoff between passes, banderillas in place, circa 1962.

A matador presents a lowered muleta to a banderilla-pierced black bull; arena attendant visible at barrier; circa 1962 8mm color footage. — Matador holds the muleta low as the banderilla-pierced bull faces him, circa 1962.

Close shot of a large black bull standing in a sand arena, banderillas visible on its back, red arena barrier at right; circa 1962 8mm color footage. — Close view of the bull standing in the arena between charges, circa 1962.

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