United States-1975: Dark Cat Stalking Along a Strip of Sunlight on a Tiled Floor

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Year1975
Decade1970s
LocationUnited States
Duration10s
Price$149 USD
Collection1975 · United States

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What is in this clip

pets
domestic life
home interior
sunlight and shadow
animal behavior
home movies
1970s nostalgia

Shot type: close-up
Camera: handheld · pan
Setting: indoor · Interior of a home, along the base of a wall on a patterned square-tile floor lit by a narrow band of sunlight
Time and weather: day · sunny
Lighting: Strong natural sunlight falling in a narrow strip along the wall, with the rest of the floor in shade
People: 0 · No people are visible.
Animals: cat
Objects: patterned tile floor · wall · baseboard · sunlight strip · upright edge of a door frame or cabinet
Colors: blue-violet · pale green-white · near black
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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The cat crouches at the left end of the sunlit strip beside the wall.
It steps forward into the light, front paws reaching across the bright edge.
The cat walks along the strip with its tail raised and its shadow on the tiles.
Its face comes into view as it turns and heads back toward the left corner.
The cat lowers its head near the corner where the wall meets an upright edge.

Dark Cat Stalking Along a Strip of Sunlight on a Tiled Floor — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1975, home movie footage shows a dark, fluffy cat moving along a bright band of sunlight at the foot of a wall on a patterned tile floor. The cat crouches, steps forward into the light, walks along the strip and later lowers its head as it heads back toward a corner at left. The single handheld shot is filmed low and close, following the animal with small pans, and the Super 8 colour has faded to a deep blue-violet cast.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-upInteriorHandheld
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 10s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000665

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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: 1975 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: 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Serves requests for 1970s American domestic interiors and family-pet footage in documentaries, education pieces and nostalgic commercial montages.
Period detail: The square-patterned resilient flooring and the blue cast of indoor-balanced Super 8 film shot in daylight may point to a home of the mid-1970s.
Home-movie behavior: A family member gets down to floor level to follow the household cat as it plays in the sunlight, an unstaged moment of everyday affection for a pet.
What appears in frame: A dark long-haired cat, its paws in a bright band of sunlight, the cat's shadow on the floor, a patterned tile floor, the base of a wall and an upright edge at the left corner.
Film character: Heavy grain, a deep blue-violet colour shift, bright sunlight blooming to pale green and a low handheld frame give the shot a dreamy, worn Super 8 texture.
Edit role: Works as a cutaway, a memory beat or a soft transition inside a home-life sequence, especially next to the reel's backyard swing footage.
Historical context: Home movies of family pets indoors were common subjects for amateur Super 8 filmmakers after Kodak introduced the format in 1965.
Research note: No people, logos or artwork appear, but the private home interior and the underlying film copyright of the unknown original filmmaker should be considered separately when licensing.
Research search match: Researchers might search for vintage Super 8 cat footage, 1970s home movie pets, cat in sunlight on a tile floor or a faded blue home interior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the children on the backyard swing set from the same reel, then with other circa 1975 American home interiors, then with vintage pet and animal home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

Dark cat stepping into a band of sunlight on a patterned tile floor in a United States home, circa 1975 Super 8 film — A dark cat steps into the strip of sunlight along the wall, its body cropped by the top of the frame.
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Fluffy dark cat crouching with paws in sunlight beside a wall corner, home interior in the United States, circa 1975 — The cat crouches low with its front paws resting in the bright light near a corner at left.
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Cat standing in a strip of daylight with its shadow on blue-tinted floor tiles, faded Super 8 home movie, circa 1975 — Standing in the sunlit band, the cat throws a long shadow across the floor tiles.
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Long-haired dark cat with head lowered prowling along sunlight on a tiled floor in a United States home, circa 1975 — The cat's face comes into view as it prowls with its head low and tail raised along the line of sunlight.
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