Georgia-1972: Lion Walking Past Resting Lionesses Seen From a Car Window

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationGeorgia, United States
Duration4s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 · Georgia, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1972 · Georgia · Reel 7dc40791 contains 5 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

drive-through safari
captive wildlife
big cats
roadside attractions
car travel
family outings
1970s leisure

Shot type: wide
Camera: handheld · pan · Eye level from a car window
Setting: outdoor · Open clearing of worn dry grass and bare earth inside pine woods at a drive-through wildlife park
Time and weather: daytime · overcast
Lighting: Flat overcast daylight with an overexposed sky
People: 0 · No people are visible.
Animals: lion · lionesses
Vehicles: car interior or body edge in the frame corner
Objects: car body edge · pine trees · fallen branches · dry grass
Colors: red-brown · tan · dark green · pale yellow-white
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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A maned lion stands among lionesses lying on dry ground in front of pine woods.
The lion walks to the right as the camera pans with it.
It passes a seated lioness and a dark edge of the car enters the lower right corner.
The lion steps past an animal lying flat and continues toward the right edge of the frame.

Lion Walking Past Resting Lionesses Seen From a Car Window — Clip Details

Probably Georgia in the United States, circa 1972 home movie footage from a drive-through wildlife park. A maned lion walks left to right across worn, straw-coloured ground, passing several lionesses lying in a loose group, with pine woods behind. The handheld camera pans to follow the animal from inside a car, and a dark edge of the vehicle enters the lower right corner toward the end. The colour is warm and red-shifted, and the focus is soft.

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: 4s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000425

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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: 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: Georgia, 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: It answers requests for early 1970s American drive-through safari park footage, shot by a visitor, for documentaries on roadside attractions, zoos and family car travel.
Period detail: Uncaged lions viewed from a private car and the warm, red-shifted colour stock point to the early 1970s, and the footage may show a park of the kind that operated near Atlanta from 1970 to 1984.
Home-movie behavior: The filmer follows the one animal that moves, panning from the car seat and letting the vehicle's own edge slip into the frame, as a visitor would rather than a wildlife cameraman.
What appears in frame: A maned lion walking, several lionesses lying and sitting on worn dry grass, scattered fallen branches, dark pine trunks, a strip of pale sky and a dark car edge in the lower right corner.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, a strong warm red-brown cast and a blown-out sky give the shot the texture of projected small-gauge amateur film.
Edit role: It works as a brief insert or memory beat showing the lion's walk, and the car edge makes it a useful cutaway to establish the drive-through setting.
Historical context: Drive-through safari parks let visitors watch free-roaming exotic animals from their own cars, and the clip shows that arrangement from the visitor's seat without naming the park.
Research note: No people, signs or logos appear; the park is unnamed and its location is an estimate, and the footage was shot on what was probably private commercial property, so property questions are separate from copyright.
Research search match: 1970s drive-through safari park home movie, lion walking past lionesses, lions filmed from car window, vintage amateur film of a lion pride in pine woods.
Archive pairing path: Pair it first with the same reel's zebras feeding in pine woods, white antelope lying down and elephants feeding, then with other early 1970s Georgia footage or other safari park home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

Maned lion standing among resting lionesses at a drive-through wildlife park, probably Georgia, circa 1972, in warm-toned home movie film. — A lion stands among lionesses lying on the worn ground of a drive-through wildlife park, probably in Georgia, circa 1972.
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Lion walking right past a seated lioness and others lying in a pine-wood clearing, probably Georgia, circa 1972, home movie film. — The lion walks to the right past a seated lioness while the rest of the pride lies in the clearing.
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Lion passing a lioness seen from behind, with a car edge in the frame corner, at a drive-through safari park probably in Georgia, circa 1972. — The lion passes a lioness seated with its back to the camera as the edge of the visitor's car enters the lower right corner.
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Lion walking toward the frame edge, filmed from a car window in pine woods, probably Georgia, circa 1972, red-shifted home movie film. — The lion keeps walking toward the right of the frame, filmed from the car window with pine woods behind.
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