Troy New York USA-1973: Blond Man in Blue Shirt Smiling While Sitting on Couch

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationTroy, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 Troy New York

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Blond Man in Blue Shirt Smiling While Sitting on Couch — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Troy, New York, 1973, showing a young man with long blond hair and a mustache, wearing a blue button-up shirt, seated in a red chair. He smiles warmly at the camera, his expression shifting slightly across the frames. The setting appears to be a living room with white curtains and a decorative window valance. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and soft focus, capturing a candid moment of 1970s domestic life. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, nostalgic content, and historical storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
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: 122683829

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 1012 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: swimming
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: new york
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: Troy, New York, 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: Useful for 1970s domestic-life requests needing a brief candid portrait of a young adult man in an interior home setting.
Period detail: The long hair, mustache, blue button-up shirt, red seating, and curtained living-room window may show early 1970s American home style.
Home-movie behavior: The seated man smiles, looks toward the camera, and shifts his expression in an unstaged family-film moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blond man, mustache, blue shirt, red chair or couch, white curtains, patterned window valance, interior wall, and soft window light.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, and handheld framing that preserve a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short character insert, domestic cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a 1970s home-life sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents a private interior social moment rather than a public event, with visual emphasis on clothing, posture, and home decor.
Research note: A recognizable adult face and private interior are visible, so likeness, privacy, and property context should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Researcher matches include 1970s 8mm home movie man smiling, Troy New York living room portrait, and blond man blue shirt family footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Troy or 1973 domestic interiors, then broader 1970s family and living-room footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1973 Troy, New York home-movie footage, a blond man in a blue shirt sits near white curtains and looks toward the camera. — A seated young man in a blue shirt looks toward the camera in a curtained living room.

The man smiles while seated in a red chair, with white curtains and a decorative window treatment behind him. — The man smiles slightly as the camera holds on him in the living-room setting.

The subject turns away from the camera during the brief candid portrait.

The man faces forward again in the Troy home-movie clip, seated on red furniture with pale curtains and a decorated window behind him. — The man faces the camera again in the final frame of the short interior shot.

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