Long Island New York-1965: Orange Tabby Cat Playing with String on Post

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Year1965
Decade1960s
LocationLong Island, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1965 Long Island New York

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Orange Tabby Cat Playing with String on Post — Clip Details

A fluffy orange tabby cat plays with a string attached to a wooden scratching post in a vintage 1965 home setting. Shot on 8mm film, the footage shows the cat batting at the string with its paws, its fur glowing under warm indoor lighting. The room features a patterned ottoman with fringe and a purple carpet, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American home. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and soft focus are characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. This candid pet footage captures playful feline behavior in a cozy domestic environment.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124981619

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 1070 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: worlds fair
Reel-level year note: 1964-1965
Reel-level location note: new york city
Date: 1965 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: Long Island, New York, 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: 1960s Long Island home-movie pet footage for editors needing a brief domestic cutaway of a cat playing indoors.
Period detail: The fringed patterned ottoman, purple carpet, and simple wooden scratching post may show mid-century American household decor.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a family camera lingering on a household pet as it bats at a dangling string.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an orange tabby cat, dangling string, wooden scratching post, red base, fringed ottoman, curtains, and purple carpet.
Film character: The 8mm image shows soft focus, visible grain, uneven indoor exposure, and saturated color shifts typical of small-gauge home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, domestic transition, pet cutaway, or memory beat within a 1960s family-life sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers a small view of everyday pet ownership inside a Long Island domestic interior in the mid-1960s.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any private-location permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1960s 8mm cat footage, orange tabby home movie, vintage pet playing with string, and Long Island indoor family film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel household scenes, then other 1965 Long Island interiors, then broader vintage pet and domestic-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1965 Long Island home-movie footage, an orange tabby cat sits near a wooden scratching post beside a fringed ottoman. — An orange tabby pauses beside a scratching post in a carpeted living room.

The cat shifts position beside the wooden post, its tail extended on the carpet.

The cat lowers its head near the wooden scratching post in a softly focused 1960s indoor home-movie frame. — The orange tabby investigates the post at floor level.

The orange tabby raises a paw toward a dangling string attached to the wooden scratching post in a Long Island home interior. — The cat bats at a string hanging from the scratching post.

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