Central Coast California USA-1973: Happy Couple Embracing on Blue Slide

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationCoast, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Happy Couple Embracing on Blue Slide — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from 1973 captures a happy couple sharing an affectionate moment on a bright blue slide at a Central Coast California home. The man, wearing a plaid shirt and dark trousers, leans in to kiss the woman, who is dressed in a white blouse and vibrant red pants, her dark hair styled in a classic 70s look. They sit together on the slide's edge, smiling and embracing, with a wooden-paneled house in the background. The footage shows natural film grain and warm color saturation typical of Super 8 film, conveying a nostalgic, intimate family memory.

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: 120955054

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: 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 1395 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: honeymoon
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: salt lake,utah,sf, california,monerey,lake tahoe
Date: 1973 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: Coast, 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 1970s home-movie requests needing an affectionate adult couple, casual leisure setting, or intimate family-memory insert from Central Coast California archival footage.
Period detail: The plaid shirt, wide red trousers, white blouse, bright blue slide, and warm 8mm color may show early-1970s casual domestic leisure styling.
Home-movie behavior: The couple appears relaxed and aware of the camera as they sit close together, smile, embrace, and share a brief kiss-like gesture on the slide.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two adults, a bright blue slide, wood-paneled exterior wall, metal slide supports, concrete ground, red trousers, plaid shirt, and strong sun shadows.
Film character: The scan retains 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, saturated warm color, slight exposure variation, and contact-print style frame edges.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short memory beat, relationship cutaway, family-history insert, or transition into a 1970s domestic leisure sequence.
Historical context: The footage shows an adult couple in a casual outdoor home or yard setting, reflecting private family filming rather than a staged public event.
Research note: Faces are clearly visible, so likeness and identification review may be needed in addition to copyright checks, with no visible logos or audible music indicated.
Research search match: Searches such as 1970s 8mm couple on slide, California home movie affectionate adults, vintage family film embrace, and Super 8 leisure couple may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Central Coast California footage, then similar 1970s home-movie scenes of couples, play, and family affection.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1973 Central Coast California home-movie footage, an adult couple sits on the edge of a bright blue slide while the man leans in toward the woman beside a wood-paneled exterior wall. — Couple leaning together on a blue slide.

An adult man in a plaid shirt and woman in a white blouse and red trousers smile on a bright blue slide in 1973 Central Coast California home-movie footage. — Smiling couple seated on the slide.

The couple remains seated close together on the blue slide, facing the camera in bright sunlight with a wood-paneled building behind them in the 1973 home-movie frame. — Couple posing in sunlight on the slide.

Near the end of the 1973 Central Coast California clip, the woman turns toward the man as they sit arm in arm on the bright blue slide. — Woman turns toward her partner on the slide.

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