Salt Lake City Utah USA-1973: Ocean with Mountains and Buoy Through Window

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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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Ocean with Mountains and Buoy Through Window — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 showing a serene ocean view from a window frame. The scene features a calm, deep blue sea under a twilight sky with distant mountains on the horizon. A small yellow buoy floats in the middle distance, creating a focal point. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera shake, capturing a quiet, contemplative moment. The dark window frame frames the view, enhancing the nostalgic, intimate feel of a personal memory.

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: 120965970

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 water-view footage suited to documentary requests for quiet travel atmosphere, shoreline cutaways, or reflective archive inserts.
Period detail: The visible period detail is mainly the 8mm color reversal look and window-framed composition, with no identifiable buildings, vehicles, clothing, or signage to narrow the date beyond the supplied 1973 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries the unstaged value of a traveler or home-movie camera lingering through a window-like frame on open water and distant horizon rather than recording a posed event.
What appears in frame: The frames show dark vertical window or film-gate edges, calm blue water, a low distant horizon, faint mountain or shoreline forms, twilight-toned sky, and small yellow buoy-like markers.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, blue-purple color shift, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and a steady but handheld home-movie feel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a contemplative insert, travel-memory transition, water establishing cutaway, or quiet pause between more specific 1970s home-movie scenes.
Historical context: The scene visually suggests leisure travel or observation of a large body of water, while the frames themselves do not confirm the specific shore, landmark, or social event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, brands, or private interiors are visible, but location identification and copyright status should still be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 8mm home movie water view, 1970s travel footage calm lake horizon, Salt Lake City Utah archival home movie water, and vintage window-framed shoreline cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Utah or Salt Lake City material, and finally with calm water, horizon, travel, or reflective home-movie themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm home-movie frame from the supplied Salt Lake City, Utah metadata showing calm blue water, a low distant horizon, and a small yellow buoy-like marker seen through dark vertical framing. — Calm water and distant horizon through a dark frame.

1973 8mm home-movie frame from the supplied Salt Lake City, Utah metadata showing open blue water, faint mountain or shoreline shapes on the horizon, and a small yellow marker near the right side. — Open water with faint mountains on the horizon.

1973 8mm home-movie frame from the supplied Salt Lake City, Utah metadata showing a hazy blue water horizon with a small yellow buoy-like marker and dark framing at the edges. — Hazy water horizon with a small marker.

1973 8mm home-movie frame from the supplied Salt Lake City, Utah metadata showing calm blue water, a faint horizon, and a small yellow marker framed by dark vertical edges. — Calm framed water view at the end of the clip.

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