Ottawa Canada-1967: People Celebrate An Occasion With A Clown In Costume Dancing

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Year1967
Decade1960s
LocationOttawa, Canada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1967 Ottawa Canada

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People Celebrate An Occasion With A Clown In Costume Dancing — Clip Details

Vintage 1967 home movie footage from Ottawa, Canada, capturing a lively indoor party. A clown in a white polka-dot costume and hat performs for guests, including women in 1960s dresses and a man in a white shirt and red tie. The scene features warm, slightly faded colors typical of 8mm film, with visible grain and soft focus. Guests laugh and watch the performance, one woman holding a drink, another smoking. A cartoonish clown face poster hangs on the wall, adding to the festive, nostalgic atmosphere of a mid-century celebration.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 121128548

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: 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 1010 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: worlds fair
Reel-level year note: 1967
Reel-level location note: montreal canada
Date: 1967 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: Ottawa, Canada 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: Useful for 1960s Canadian home-movie requests needing indoor party, costume performance, or family celebration material for documentary or museum edits.
Period detail: The clothing, drinks, smoking, wood-paneled room, and clown decorations support a late-1960s domestic celebration setting consistent with the 1967 Ottawa metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in guests reacting naturally to a costumed clown performer in a private interior, with laughter, watching, and casual party behavior.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a polka-dot clown costume, seated party guests, bright 1960s dresses, drinks, a cigarette, wood wall panels, chairs, and clown-face wall decor.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, warm faded color, visible grain, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that preserve the home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, memory beat, or cutaway for celebration, party entertainment, domestic leisure, or 1960s social life.
Historical context: The clip shows a private indoor gathering where adults watch a playful costume performance, reflecting informal home entertainment rather than a public event.
Research note: People and faces are visible in a private interior, so likeness and property review may be needed even where copyright status is separately addressed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1967 Ottawa 8mm home movie party, clown costume dancing indoors, 1960s Canadian celebration, and vintage domestic gathering footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Ottawa 1967 home movies, then broader 1960s indoor party or costume celebration scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1967 Ottawa home-movie footage, a polka-dot clown costume fills the foreground as guests sit and watch in a wood-paneled room. — A costumed clown performs for seated guests during an indoor celebration.

Adults in party clothing sit along a wood-paneled wall while a clown in a white polka-dot costume moves at the edge of the frame. — Guests watch the clown performer from chairs along the wall.

A group of adults in 1960s party clothing sit indoors below a clown-face decoration, with drinks visible and one person smoking. — Seated guests react during the party beneath clown-themed wall decor.

Adults seated in an Ottawa party interior smile and look toward the performer, with a clown-face decoration hanging on the wall behind them. — Party guests smile and watch the off-frame clown performance.

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