San Francisco California-1975: A Lady Dancing The Belly Dance

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Year1975
Decade1970s
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1975 California

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A Lady Dancing The Belly Dance — Clip Details

A grainy, high-contrast 8mm home movie from 1975 captures a woman performing a belly dance against a dark, indistinct background. Her silhouette is illuminated, arms raised, body in motion, with a bright light reflecting off her lower abdomen. The footage exhibits heavy film grain, a narrow field of view, and the characteristic soft focus of vintage Super 8 film. This raw, unpolished clip offers a candid glimpse into personal performance and nightlife culture of the era.

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: 123200027

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1975 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: San Francisco, California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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: Supports requests for 1970s San Francisco 8mm footage of a private or small-stage dance performance for documentary, education, or archival edit use.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1975-era belly dance performance, with period evidence coming mainly from the 8mm film texture and supplied San Francisco metadata rather than visible setting details.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an informal viewer-shot perspective on a solo performer, emphasizing body movement, raised arms, and the limitations of low-light home-movie filming.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lone dancer, raised arms, a dark plain background, soft focus, heavy grain, high contrast, a bright abdominal reflection, and contact-sheet frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm image has pronounced grain, soft focus, dark exposure, slight flicker, and compressed framing that give the performance a raw home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, nightlife or performance cutaway, memory beat, or transitional fragment within a 1970s personal-culture sequence.
Historical context: The footage suggests a small-scale recorded dance performance, but the setting, audience, venue, and occasion are not visible in the extracted frames.
Research note: A performer is visible and appears partly nude or minimally costumed, so likeness, privacy, and sensitive-content review may be needed separately from copyright assessment.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1970s San Francisco 8mm belly dance, vintage home movie dancer, Super 8 performance footage, and low-light archival dance clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1975 San Francisco footage, then related 1970s performance, nightlife, dance, or home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1975 San Francisco 8mm frame showing a lone belly dancer, softly focused, with arms raised against a dark indistinct background. — A solo dancer appears in soft focus with arms lifted during a low-light 8mm performance shot.

1975 San Francisco 8mm frame with a front-facing dancer centered in dim light, arms lifted and body softly outlined. — The performer is centered in a dark, grainy frame with arms held upward.

1975 San Francisco 8mm frame showing the dancer slightly turned, one arm higher, with the figure emerging from a dark background. — The dancer shifts pose within the dark frame, with one raised arm partly cut off by the contact-sheet crop.

1975 San Francisco 8mm frame of the dancer with arms lifted and a small bright reflection near the lower abdomen in low light. — A bright point reflects near the performer’s lower abdomen as the dancer holds an arms-raised pose.

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