Salt Lake City Utah USA-1973: Vintage Clip Of Rolling Waves On An Ocean

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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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Vintage Clip Of Rolling Waves On An Ocean — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 showing a tranquil ocean at dusk or dawn, viewed through a window frame. The scene features deep blue water with gentle rolling waves under a dark, moody sky. A faint distant light glimmers on the horizon, adding to the serene, contemplative mood. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, with a soft focus and subtle flicker characteristic of analog home movie footage. This atmospheric clip captures the quiet beauty of the sea in a nostalgic, personal style.

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: 120965976

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 seascape footage suited for documentary inserts, reflective transitions, or archival atmosphere where anonymous ocean views are needed.
Period detail: The frames show analog 8mm color rendering, soft focus, visible grain, and window-like dark vertical borders, while the specific Salt Lake City metadata conflicts with the visible ocean scene and should be treated cautiously.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged quality of a traveler or family filmer holding on a quiet water view from behind a window or structural frame rather than recording a posed subject.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark blue ocean water, low rolling waves, a dim horizon line, a dusky sky, black vertical frame edges, and a faint distant point of light.
Film character: The footage carries a saturated blue cast, coarse 8mm grain, mild flicker, soft focus, and dark gate or window framing that give it a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm cutaway, opening or closing transition, contemplative memory beat, or visual bridge between travel, water, and nighttime sequences.
Historical context: As a short home-movie ocean view from the 1970s, the clip documents a private observational style more than a public event or identifiable place.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable property identifiers are visible, but copyright, source ownership, and the location mismatch between metadata and imagery still require normal clearance review.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches include 1970s 8mm ocean at dusk, vintage home movie rolling waves, blue seascape through window, and Super 8 tranquil water cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1973 or Salt Lake City-labeled material if context supports it, and finally with broader 1970s home-movie water and travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1970s 8mm home-movie frame showing a dark blue ocean horizon with gentle waves under a low, dusky sky, viewed through heavy black vertical framing. — Blue ocean horizon framed in shadow.

1970s 8mm home-movie frame of rolling blue water and a dim horizon, with a small distant light visible near the right side of the seascape. — Faint light over a dark water horizon.

1970s 8mm home-movie frame showing a softly focused ocean surface, a low horizon, and a pale blue-purple sky band within dark vertical framing. — Soft blue waves below a pale sky band.

1970s 8mm home-movie frame with dark rolling ocean water, a muted horizon, and black vertical framing that suggests filming through a window or structural opening. — Rolling water seen through dark framing.

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