California USA-1961: Kentucky Marching Parade with Band and Crowd

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 California

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Kentucky Marching Parade with Band and Crowd — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from California in 1961 captures a lively parade with a Kentucky-themed banner carried by marchers. The clip shows a marching band in red and white uniforms performing in front of a large crowd, with a prominent stone tower and equestrian statue in the background. The grainy, color-bleached film quality and slightly shaky camera movement reflect authentic home movie style from the early 1960s. The scene includes spectators lining the street, some in period clothing, and a festive atmosphere typical of mid-century American parades.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120766645

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
Audible music: Yes

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 1740 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: indian pow wow
Reel-level year note: 1961-1966
Reel-level location note: san bernardino,california,slaton sea
Date: 1961 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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: Useful for productions needing early 1960s American parade footage with a Kentucky-themed marching unit, spectators, and home-movie street coverage for documentary or educational context.
Period detail: Visible period clues include the 8mm color home-movie look, mid-century dress among spectators, red-and-white majorette uniforms, a large cloth Kentucky district banner, and a civic parade setting in California as supplied by metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from a spectator position with slight handheld movement, capturing marchers, band members, and crowd reactions as unstaged public parade activity.
What appears in frame: The frames show a Kentucky district banner, marchers carrying it across the street, majorettes in red-and-white uniforms, a crowd lining the route, band members, a stone tower, an equestrian statue, and street markings.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, muted color, exposure variation, and handheld framing that preserve the texture of scanned early 1960s home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, parade cutaway, regional identity detail, or memory beat within a sequence about civic celebrations, marching bands, or mid-century public gatherings.
Historical context: The scene documents a public parade environment where a Kentucky-labeled group and marching performers pass spectators in a civic urban setting, without enough visible evidence to identify the specific event or landmark.
Research note: People and faces are visible, a Kentucky district banner is prominent, and audible music is flagged, so likeness, trademark or organizational identification, and music rights should be reviewed separately from any footage copyright analysis.
Research search match: Searches such as 1961 8mm Kentucky parade California, vintage marching band crowd, home movie majorettes street parade, and mid-century American parade banner may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other California 1961 parade material, and then with related marching band, civic festival, banner, and spectator crowd scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In the 1961 California parade scene, red-and-white uniformed majorettes and band members move along the street before spectators, with a stone tower and equestrian statue visible in the background. — Marching performers pass a crowded parade route.

The closing frame shows marching performers in red-and-white uniforms moving past a large spectator crowd, with a civic tower and equestrian statue behind the parade route. — Crowd watches the marching group pass.

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