Central Coast California USA-1973: Couple Posing Embracing And Kissing By Blue Slide

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

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Couple Posing Embracing And Kissing By Blue Slide — Clip Details

A vintage 1973 home movie clip from the Central Coast of California shows a couple posing together by a bright blue plastic slide. The man in a plaid shirt and dark trousers sits beside the woman in a white blouse and red pants, his arm around her as they smile and embrace. The scene captures a candid moment of affection in a sunny backyard setting with wood-paneled walls, rendered in authentic 8mm film with warm colors and natural grain. This nostalgic footage evokes mid-70s Americana and family life.

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: 120955084

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 clip supports 1970s home-movie requests for affectionate couple posing, backyard leisure, and family-memory inserts from Central Coast California footage.
Period detail: The clothing, bright molded slide, wood-panel backdrop, and warm 8mm color may show a casual early-1970s domestic or recreational setting.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the informal pose as the couple sits close together, smiles, embraces, and appears to share a brief kiss for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an adult couple, a bright blue slide, metal slide rails, wood wall paneling, concrete ground, sunlight, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, warm color, slight softness, high-contrast sunlight, and contact-sheet frame edges that reinforce its scanned home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short memory beat, relationship cutaway, domestic-life insert, or transition into family and leisure material from the same era.
Historical context: The scene visually reflects casual 1970s social posing and affectionate behavior in a private or semi-private outdoor setting without identifying the people shown.
Research note: Faces and likenesses are visible, so use may require separate likeness review while copyright, location, and any property permissions should be assessed independently.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1970s 8mm couple posing, California home movie embrace, vintage backyard slide, affectionate couple kiss, and Super 8 family memory footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Central Coast California 1973 home movies, then broader 1970s couple, family, leisure, and backyard-life clips.

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 bright blue slide. — Couple posing beside a blue slide.

The couple remains seated together beside the blue slide, with the man leaning close and holding the woman as they face the camera in bright outdoor light. — The couple sits close for the camera.

The man leans toward the woman in an affectionate moment while they sit shoulder to shoulder beside the bright blue slide in the 1973 home-movie scene. — An affectionate lean beside the slide.

At the end of the clip, the man turns toward the woman while keeping his arm around her as they sit by the blue slide against a wood-paneled wall. — The man turns toward his partner.

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