Las Vegas USA-1977: Looking Out A High Rise Building During The Night

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Year1977
Decade1970s
LocationLas Vegas, Nevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1977 Las Vegas

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Looking Out A High Rise Building During The Night — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1977 showing a nighttime aerial view of Las Vegas from a high-rise window. The scene is bathed in a deep blue tint with prominent neon signs, including a glowing pink and white landmark. The camera pans across the cityscape, capturing illuminated buildings, parking lots, and distant lights against the dark sky. The grainy, slightly blurry quality and film artifacts are characteristic of Super 8 footage, evoking a nostalgic, retro atmosphere of 1970s Las Vegas.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: AerialNight
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: 121121334

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: Yes
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 1386 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1977
Reel-level location note: hawaii,las vegas
Date: 1977 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: Las Vegas, Nevada, 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: Fills archival requests for 1970s Las Vegas nightlife, neon-era Strip atmosphere, or period city-at-night establishing shots in documentary and drama productions.
Period detail: The blue-violet color cast, heavy grain, and neon signage scale are consistent with late-1970s 8mm film; specific casino signs are not legible enough to identify individual brands.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from a hotel room window by a visitor, capturing the instinctive tourist impulse to film the Strip's neon spectacle from a high vantage point after dark.
What appears in frame: High-rise building facades, large pink neon signs, low-rise rooftops, street-level parking areas, small pedestrian figures, scattered point lights, and a faint mountain silhouette.
Film character: Heavy blue-violet color cast, pronounced film grain, lens blur on distant neon, and motion smear create the dreamlike low-light texture of amateur 8mm shot after dark.
Edit role: Works as an aerial establishing shot or memory-beat cutaway to evoke the neon excess of 1970s Las Vegas in documentary, drama, or commercial timelines.
Historical context: Las Vegas in the late 1970s was defined by competing hotel-tower construction and large-format neon signage; this elevated view captures that skyline density before 1980s–90s casino redevelopments.
Research note: Neon signs in frame may constitute registered trademarks; sign text is not legible but visible illuminated structures require review; street-level figures are not individually identifiable.
Research search match: Likely matches queries such as '1970s Las Vegas night aerial,' 'vintage neon Strip footage,' '8mm city night hotel window,' or 'Super 8 Las Vegas 1977.'
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same reel if available, then with 1970s Las Vegas street-level or casino-interior footage, then with neon-city-at-night sequences from the same decade.

Still Frames From This Clip

8mm film frame circa 1977, aerial view of Las Vegas at night from a hotel high-rise, showing a large pink-red neon sign and pedestrian-scale figures on the street below. — Las Vegas Strip at night from high-rise window, large neon sign and street-level figures visible, circa 1977.

8mm home movie frame circa 1977, Las Vegas Strip at night showing a high-rise hotel at left and a prominent domed pink neon structure at right, with mountain ridgeline on the horizon. — Las Vegas skyline pan showing a domed neon structure and mountain silhouette, circa 1977.

8mm film frame circa 1977, wide aerial view of Las Vegas at night from hotel high-rise, neon sign cluster glowing pink in middle distance, low-rise rooftops in foreground. — Wide aerial view of Las Vegas neon district at night, low-rise rooftops in foreground, circa 1977.

8mm home movie frame circa 1977, Las Vegas Strip at night with a distinctive rounded pink neon sign structure prominent at center and a tall hotel building at right. — Las Vegas Strip at night with rounded neon sign structure and hotel high-rise visible, circa 1977.

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