Troy New York USA-1973: Mustaches Man In Brown Coat Laughing Hard

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

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Mustaches Man In Brown Coat Laughing Hard — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Troy, New York, 1973, showing a young man with a mustache and blonde hair smiling and laughing in a dimly lit room. He wears a brown V-neck sweater over a purple patterned collared shirt. The grainy, color-bleached film has a distinct retro aesthetic with visible film grain and soft focus, capturing a candid moment of joy. The background includes a doorway and patterned wallpaper, with a brief glimpse of another person in the final frame. This authentic archival clip evokes 1970s nostalgia and personal memory.

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: 122684646

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 U.S. home-movie requests needing a candid indoor social moment, personal memory beat, or informal portrait for documentary or educational editing.
Period detail: The brown V-neck sweater, patterned collared shirt, mustache, wallpaper, and soft 8mm color suggest an early-1970s domestic interior consistent with the Troy, New York metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip captures an unstaged exchange as a young man smiles, laughs hard, leans out of focus, and turns toward someone just outside the camera's attention.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a mustached young man, brown sweater, purple patterned shirt, doorway, floral wallpaper, dark interior space, and a second seated adult near the end.
Film character: The footage has 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, heavy grain, uneven exposure, flash-like highlights, and handheld framing that reinforces its candid source.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, reaction shot, transitional memory beat, or domestic cutaway within a sequence about family gatherings or 1970s interiors.
Historical context: The scene reflects informal indoor social filming in a private home, emphasizing personal style and domestic space rather than a public event or identifiable landmark.
Research note: Faces and a private interior are visible, so copyright status should be reviewed separately from likeness, privacy, and property considerations before commercial use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1970s 8mm home movie laughing man, Troy New York indoor family footage, mustached man in brown sweater, and candid domestic Super 8 reaction.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Troy 1973 interiors, then broader 1970s home-movie scenes of adults laughing or socializing indoors.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a Troy, New York 1973 home-movie frame, a mustached young man smiles in a brown sweater and purple shirt beside patterned wallpaper. — A young man smiles toward the camera in a dim interior doorway.

The man continues smiling near a doorway, with floral wallpaper and a dark interior behind him in the 1973 home-movie footage. — The man smiles broadly while standing in a domestic interior.

The mustached man laughs and leans forward, creating motion blur against the doorway and patterned wall in the Troy home-movie scene. — Motion blur catches the man laughing and leaning out of frame.

The man turns toward the doorway while another seated adult briefly appears lower in frame inside the private interior. — A second adult becomes visible as the laughing man turns away.

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