Irvine California-1974: Lioness Walks Up Hill To Meet Others In Her 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 To Meet Others In Her Pride — Clip Details

A lioness walks across a dry, grassy hillside in this 8mm home movie from 1974, filmed in Irvine, California. The footage captures her moving toward two other lionesses resting on the slope, with one lying down and another observing. Shot on vintage 8mm film, the clip shows natural wildlife behavior in a savanna-like setting, with muted earth tones and a grainy, nostalgic quality. The scene conveys a quiet moment of pride interaction, with the lioness approaching her companions in a calm, deliberate stride.

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: 127394000

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

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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: 1970s 8mm wildlife footage suited to documentary inserts, education programs, or archive sequences needing lioness pride behavior in a visitor-shot California setting.
Period detail: The 8mm frame shape, muted color, soft focus, and metadata-supported 1974 date place this as mid-1970s home-movie material, with no visible signage or landmarks to further identify the site.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an observational visitor-shot view of lionesses on a dry slope, with the camera holding on quiet movement rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include several lionesses, a dry sloped hillside, sparse low vegetation, pale sky, handheld framing, and dark film-frame borders from the contact sheet.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, subdued earth tones, slight blur, and uneven exposure that give the animal behavior a period home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short wildlife cutaway, a calm transition beat, or an archival insert establishing captive or park-like big-cat observation in the 1970s.
Historical context: The scene shows lionesses moving and resting in open terrain, but the frames do not confirm whether the setting is a zoo, wildlife park, or managed habitat.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable property identifiers are visible, though copyright, location permissions, and animal-facility context should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1974 8mm lioness footage, vintage home movie lion pride, Irvine California wildlife park lions, and 1970s big cat archival cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1974 Irvine animal scenes, then with broader 1970s 8mm wildlife or zoo-visit material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1974 Irvine 8mm footage, a lioness is seen from behind walking up a dry hillside toward two resting lionesses. — A lioness approaches others lying near the crest of a dry slope.

The walking lioness nears a small group of lionesses on the hillside in this 1974 Irvine home-movie frame. — The lioness moves closer to a resting group on the slope.

A profile view of the lioness on the ridge line.

The lioness passes near a reclining lioness on the dry hill, framed by dark contact-sheet borders and muted 8mm color. — A walking lioness passes a companion lying on the slope.

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