Irvine California-1974: Video Of Mountain Lions

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

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Video Of Mountain Lions — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1974, this vintage home movie captures a pride of mountain lions resting on a rocky hillside. A lioness lies in the foreground, gazing toward the camera, while other lions lounge and move in the background under an overcast sky. The footage shows natural behavior in a wild setting, with small yellow wildflowers dotting the foreground and the characteristic grain and soft focus of Super 8 film. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse of wildlife in a natural habitat, perfect for documentaries, nature projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 127394023

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: 1970s 8mm wildlife footage for productions needing a brief cutaway of mountain lions resting and shifting on a rocky hillside in Southern California.
Period detail: The soft 8mm color, overcast exposure, and handheld framing support a 1974 home-movie context, while the visible scene itself shows few date-specific clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational home-movie viewpoint, watching the animals from a fixed distance as they lounge, look toward the camera, and move casually through the frame.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include several mountain lions, a rocky dirt slope, sparse grasses, small yellow wildflowers, an overcast sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries a physical 8mm texture with muted color, visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame edges that signal original film capture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife insert, habitat cutaway, transition between nature sequences, or brief archival memory beat about Southern California animals.
Historical context: The footage documents a 1970s amateur view of mountain lions in an open rocky setting, without visible people, signage, buildings, or modern identifiers.
Research note: No people, brands, or private structures are visible, but users should still confirm copyright, location context, species identification, and any wildlife-use requirements.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1974 8mm mountain lions, vintage California wildlife, Irvine animal footage, cougar home movie, and 1970s nature film cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1974 Irvine or Southern California footage, then broader vintage wildlife or animal-behavior material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 Irvine 8mm frame showing mountain lions resting on a rocky hillside with sparse grasses and an overcast sky. — Mountain lions rest low on a rocky hillside, partly softened by distance and film grain.

1974 Irvine 8mm frame with a mountain lion facing the camera as other mountain lions lounge and stand nearby. — A foreground mountain lion faces the camera while others gather on the slope behind it.

1974 Irvine 8mm frame showing one mountain lion standing behind another that lies facing forward on the slope. — One mountain lion stands in profile behind a resting cat on the open hillside.

1974 Irvine 8mm frame with a reclining mountain lion in front and additional mountain lions clustered behind on rocky ground. — A reclining mountain lion remains still as other cats shift behind it near the frame edge.

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