New Mexico-1972: A Lynx Eating Food in a Cage from Two Angles

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationNew, Mexico
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 New Mexico

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A Lynx Eating Food in a Cage from Two Angles — Clip Details

A wild lynx is seen in a wire mesh enclosure, eating red food items in a 1972 8mm home movie from New Mexico. The cat, with distinctive spotted fur and tufted ears, is shown from two different angles—first behind the cage mesh, then in a more open outdoor area with sparse grass and a stucco wall. The footage captures the animal’s natural feeding behavior in captivity, with warm, slightly faded colors typical of vintage Super 8 film. The grainy texture and soft focus reflect the era’s home movie aesthetic, offering authentic archival footage of wildlife in a zoo setting.

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: 125777449

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1972 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: New, Mexico Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s 8mm wildlife-in-captivity material for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing a short New Mexico zoo-style animal feeding cutaway.
Period detail: The footage may show a modest 1970s animal enclosure, with wire mesh, stucco-like walls, sparse ground cover, and the warm color response of amateur 8mm film.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a visitor-shot view of a wild cat feeding, with the camera observing from outside the enclosure rather than staging animal action.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a spotted tuft-eared wild cat, wire mesh, red food pieces, low enclosure walls, sparse grass, dirt ground, and handheld framing.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, mild fading, and slight handheld instability that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife cutaway, captivity insert, zoo visit transition, or period memory beat within a 1970s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for a public or captive animal display, without enough evidence to identify the facility or animal-care setting beyond the enclosure shown.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but species, facility identity, copyright status, and any property permissions should be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1972 New Mexico 8mm lynx feeding, vintage zoo wild cat enclosure, Super 8 captive wildlife, and home movie animal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1972 New Mexico footage, then related zoo, wildlife, or captive animal home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A tuft-eared spotted wild cat feeds behind wire mesh in a New Mexico 1972 8mm home-movie frame. — Wild cat feeding behind the enclosure mesh.

The wild cat remains behind cage mesh, head lowered toward red food in the 1972 New Mexico 8mm footage. — Second angle-like moment of the cat feeding behind mesh.

A spotted wild cat feeds on red food in a sparse outdoor enclosure with grass and a stucco-like wall. — The cat feeds in a more open enclosure view.

The wild cat crouches by red food on patchy grass and dirt, framed against a pale enclosure wall. — Crouched wild cat feeding beside patchy grass.

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