Salt Lake City Utah USA-1973: Sailing In The Open Seas

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationSalt Lake City, Utah, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 Salt Lake City Utah

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Sailing In The Open Seas — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 showing a distant sailboat on calm open seas under a deep blue twilight sky. The scene captures a solitary yellow-sailed boat floating on the horizon with faint mountain silhouettes in the background. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, soft focus, and a distinctive purple-blue color cast typical of 1970s home movie film stock. The shot is framed with dark borders, suggesting viewing through a projector or film viewer. This nostalgic clip evokes a sense of quiet adventure and mid-century Americana, perfect for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, or editorial content about vintage travel and nautical life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120965952

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

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 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: Salt Lake City, Utah, 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: 1970s 8mm home-movie footage suited to archival requests for quiet sailing, open-water recreation, or atmospheric travel cutaways tied to Salt Lake City, Utah metadata.
Period detail: The frames may show 1973-era amateur color film with a distant small sail, calm water, soft mountain silhouettes, and no visible modern infrastructure or identifying landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged observer's view of a tiny sailboat held at a distance across open water, emphasizing private travel memory rather than organized spectacle.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a deep blue sky, calm dark water, a small yellow sail or sailboat on the horizon, faint mountain forms, heavy black film borders, and soft frame-to-frame exposure variation.
Film character: The clip carries a pronounced 8mm home-movie texture with blue-purple color shift, visible grain, soft focus, slight flicker, and dark gate or viewer borders framing the image.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief contemplative insert, transition, waterfront cutaway, or memory beat between broader travel, recreation, or landscape sequences.
Historical context: Within the supplied Salt Lake City, Utah 1973 metadata, the footage suggests recreational sailing or boating seen from shore or another vantage point, without enough visible detail to identify the specific body of water.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, brands, private property, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and location identification should still be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1970s 8mm sailing footage, vintage home movie sailboat on lake, distant yellow sail on calm water, Salt Lake City Utah 1973 boating, and blue twilight lake cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Salt Lake City or Utah water-recreation footage, and then with broader 1970s travel, boating, mountain-lake, or home-movie landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm home-movie frame tied to Salt Lake City, Utah metadata, showing a tiny yellow sail or sailboat on calm water with faint mountains under a deep blue sky. — Tiny sail on calm blue water with mountains barely visible.

Distant yellow sail or small sailboat appears near the horizon in 1973 8mm footage associated with Salt Lake City, Utah, with subdued mountain silhouettes and heavy film borders. — Small yellow sail against a blue water horizon.

Soft 8mm frame from the supplied 1973 Salt Lake City, Utah clip showing a distant yellow sail on calm water, hazy mountains, and a pronounced blue-purple film cast. — Distant sailboat sits low against hazy mountains.

Final frame of the 1973 8mm Salt Lake City, Utah clip shows a small yellow sailboat on open water, distant mountain silhouettes, and the purple-blue color cast of aged home-movie film. — Small sailboat on open water below a blue horizon.

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