San Francisco California-1963: Tabby Cat Climbing Rafters onto Roof

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Year1963
Decade1960s
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1963 San Francisco California

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Tabby Cat Climbing Rafters onto Roof — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1963, this vintage home movie captures a tabby cat climbing over wooden rafters and onto a roof in San Francisco, California. The grainy, color-bleached footage shows the cat navigating a brick chimney and wooden structure under dim lighting, then resting on a sunlit roof edge surrounded by green foliage. The natural, unscripted behavior and authentic film texture evoke a nostalgic, candid moment from mid-century America.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123774748

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 1112 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: knotts berry farm,zoo,san diego,mary,park,phillip
Reel-level year note: 1963
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1963 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: San Francisco, 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 1960s San Francisco home-movie footage for productions needing a brief domestic animal cutaway or mid-century household exterior detail.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century residential exterior materials, including wood roof framing, planter-like edges, dense garden foliage, and soft color typical of 1963 8mm film.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged household moment, with a tabby cat moving cautiously across rafters and settling along a roof edge as the camera observes from nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tabby cat, dark rafters, a wooden roof edge, green plants, bright overexposed sky, and the vertical divisions of the contact-sheet scan.
Film character: The 8mm image has coarse grain, high contrast, color fading, slight blur, and uneven exposure that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short animal insert, domestic memory beat, transition from exterior home life, or quiet observational cutaway.
Historical context: The scene offers a small view of everyday pet life around a San Francisco residence without supporting broader claims about the household or neighborhood.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, and any property-related concerns should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1963 San Francisco 8mm home movie cat on roof, vintage tabby cat footage, domestic pet climbing rafters, and mid-century animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel household scenes, then other 1963 San Francisco exteriors, then broader vintage domestic animal or rooftop cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

A tabby cat appears partly in shadow near dark wood rafters in 1963 San Francisco 8mm home-movie footage. — The cat is first seen in a dim section of the wooden roof structure.

The tabby cat moves along a wooden roof edge beside garden foliage in the San Francisco home-movie scene. — The cat crosses into brighter light along the roof edge near surrounding plants.

A tabby cat walks across the wooden roof edge with leafy plants behind it in 1963 San Francisco footage. — The cat continues along the roofline, framed by garden plants and weathered wood.

The tabby cat pauses low on the roof edge, surrounded by foliage in the 1963 San Francisco home-movie clip. — The cat settles close to the roof edge as the handheld camera holds the shot.

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