Irvine California-1974: Lioness Walks Up Hill Toward Resting Pride

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Year1974
Decade1970s
LocationIrvine, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1974 Irvine California

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Lioness Walks Up Hill Toward Resting Pride — Clip Details

A lioness walks away from the camera up a dry, grassy hill dotted with yellow wildflowers, her lean form moving steadily toward a resting pride of lions on the hilltop. The footage, shot on 8mm film in 1974, captures the natural behavior of the pride in a sun-drenched savanna-like setting. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and soft focus evoke a nostalgic, home movie aesthetic. The scene is framed by dark borders, suggesting viewing through a window or binoculars, enhancing the sense of a personal, archival wildlife observation.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127393990

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: 1974 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: Irvine, California, United States 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: Useful for 1970s wildlife, zoo or safari-park documentary edits needing visitor-shot 8mm footage of a lioness moving toward a resting pride.
Period detail: The 8mm color, soft focus and contact-frame borders support a 1970s home-movie reading, while the dry hillside setting may show a controlled wildlife park in Irvine, California.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an observational visitor perspective, holding on the lioness from behind as she walks uphill toward other lions without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lioness walking away, resting lions on the ridge, dry soil, sparse grasses, yellow wildflowers, dark frame borders and soft handheld framing.
Film character: Grain, slight fade, muted color, soft focus and mild exposure variation give the footage a physical 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife insert, transition beat, zoo-safari cutaway or memory fragment within a 1970s California home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a 1974 visitor view of large cats in a dry, open enclosure or savanna-like landscape, without visible people, signage or identifying landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos or readable property identifiers are visible, but copyright, location permissions and animal-park context should still be reviewed before licensing.
Research search match: Search matches include 1974 8mm lioness footage, Irvine California lions, home movie wildlife park, resting pride on hill and vintage animal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Irvine 1974 animal footage, then broader 1970s wildlife-park or big-cat home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 Irvine, California 8mm frame of a lioness walking away uphill toward several resting lions along a dry ridge. — A lioness climbs a dry slope toward a resting pride visible along the hilltop.

The lioness moves farther up the dry Irvine hillside, framed by dark 8mm borders with resting lions on the ridge line. — The lioness advances through low vegetation as the pride remains on the hilltop.

A soft 8mm frame shows the lioness from behind nearing the ridge where other lions rest in the dry California setting. — The lioness nears the hilltop, her tail low as she moves toward the pride.

Near the end of the 1974 Irvine 8mm shot, the lioness walks uphill beneath a resting lion stretched along the ridge. — A resting lion lies on the ridge as the lioness continues uphill below it.

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