Central Coast California USA-1973: Man and Woman Sitting Together Smiling by Blue Slide

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

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Man and Woman Sitting Together Smiling by Blue Slide — Clip Details

A vintage 1973 home movie clip from the Central Coast of California, featuring a smiling couple sitting together at the base of a bright blue plastic slide. The man, wearing a plaid shirt and dark trousers, has his arm around the woman, who is dressed in a white blouse and red pants. They share a warm, lighthearted moment in front of a wooden-paneled building, with sunlight casting sharp shadows on the concrete. The footage exhibits classic 8mm film grain and color saturation, capturing a nostalgic, candid moment of domestic joy and affection.

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: 120955079

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: This 1973 Central Coast California 8mm home-movie clip can support archival requests for informal 1970s couple portraiture, family leisure, and affectionate everyday moments in documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The plaid shirt, high-waisted red trousers, bright plastic playground slide, and sunlit wood-paneled exterior may show early-1970s casual clothing and recreational settings consistent with the supplied 1973 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The couple appears relaxed and aware of the camera, sitting close together with the man’s arm around the woman as they smile and share a brief posed home-movie moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an adult man and woman, a bright blue curving slide, wood-paneled wall, concrete ground, metal slide supports, sharp sunlight, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has a saturated 8mm color look with visible grain, slight softness, high-contrast daylight exposure, and contact-sheet framing that preserves the physical-film character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short memory beat, affectionate family cutaway, or transition into broader material about 1970s domestic life, leisure, or personal relationships.
Historical context: The scene reflects an informal social setting where adults are filmed in a casual recreational space, but the footage does not identify the specific relationship between the two people beyond their close, friendly pose.
Research note: Faces and likenesses are visible, so reuse may require assessment of model or privacy considerations in addition to copyright status, while no logos, minors, or audible music are evident from the supplied metadata.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1973 California home movie couple, 1970s playground slide adults, Super 8 affectionate couple, Central Coast California family footage, and vintage 8mm smiling man and woman.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Central Coast California material, and then with broader 1970s home-movie scenes of couples, leisure, and outdoor family settings.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a 1973 Central Coast California home-movie frame, an adult man in a plaid shirt sits with his arm around a woman in a white blouse and red pants beside a blue slide. — Couple seated together by a blue slide.

The couple remains seated close together in the 1973 Central Coast California home-movie scene, with the man smiling toward the camera and the woman seated beside the blue slide. — Smiling pair at the playground slide.

In this 1973 Central Coast California frame, the man and woman sit closely by the blue slide as the woman turns toward him and the sun casts strong shadows on the concrete. — Woman turns toward the seated man.

The closing 1973 Central Coast California home-movie frame shows the couple still seated together beside the blue playground slide, framed by the dark edges of the film scan. — Couple framed by 8mm film edges.

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