Salt Lake City Utah USA-1973: Red and Yellow Flag on Water Buoy

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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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Red and Yellow Flag on Water Buoy — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 showing a distant red and yellow flag mounted on a buoy floating in calm blue water. The scene is viewed through a dark frame, likely from a projector or film viewer, with visible film grain and a distinct purple-blue color cast typical of aged Super 8 film. A faint mountain range appears on the horizon under a hazy sky. The camera remains mostly static with subtle movement, capturing a quiet, nostalgic moment of a lone marker in the water. This authentic archival clip evokes mid-20th century Americana and is ideal for documentaries, retro-themed projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 120965963

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: Supports 1970s archival requests for quiet Utah waterway or lakeside cutaways, especially productions needing noncommercial home-movie atmosphere without people in frame.
Period detail: The clip shows a distant buoy-mounted red and yellow flag on calm blue water, with the 1973 date and Salt Lake City, Utah location supported by supplied metadata rather than visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the patient, mostly static home-movie observation of a small marker on open water, suggesting casual filming rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, a small red and yellow flag, a buoy or pole, hazy sky, distant mountain silhouettes, dark film-frame borders, and pronounced blue-purple color cast.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, soft focus, slight frame instability, dark gate edges, and aged blue-purple color that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet insert, transition, or memory beat between broader travel, lake, or 1970s Americana sequences.
Historical context: As a non-urban waterscape from a 1973 home movie, the footage offers environmental atmosphere and period texture without making identifiable claims about a specific lake feature or event.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but copyright, location verification, and any use-specific property or access questions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful researcher phrases include 1973 Utah lake footage, Salt Lake City home movie water flag, 8mm buoy on water, vintage Super 8 calm lake, and 1970s blue water cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1973 Salt Lake City or Utah water scenes, then broader vintage lake, buoy, flag, and quiet landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Salt Lake City, Utah 8mm frame showing a small red and yellow buoy flag on calm water beneath a hazy sky and faint mountain horizon. — Small flag marker on calm water.

Distant buoy-mounted flag on calm water in the supplied 1973 Salt Lake City, Utah home-movie footage, framed by dark film edges and a hazy mountain horizon. — Distant flag and mountain horizon.

Soft 8mm frame from 1973 Salt Lake City, Utah metadata showing a small red and yellow water marker with blue water, haze, and distant landforms. — Flag marker against blue water.

Final 1973 Salt Lake City, Utah home-movie frame with a distant red and yellow flag marker on calm water, faint mountains, and dark 8mm frame borders. — Lone marker on calm water.

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