Fort Wayne Indiana-1976: Driving Along A Road With Massive Fields On Both Sides

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Year1976
Decade1970s
LocationFort Wayne, Indiana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1976 Fort Wayne Indiana

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Driving Along A Road With Massive Fields On Both Sides — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1976, this vintage home movie captures a car journey through the American Midwest. The footage shows a long, straight road stretching across vast, flat fields under a deep purple sky. A prominent wooden sign reads 'Welcome to Colorful Colorado,' marking a state border. The view is from inside a moving vehicle, with a white line visible on the asphalt and a rural landscape of dry grass and scattered trees. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, evoking a strong sense of 1970s Americana and road trip nostalgia.

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: 124452494

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: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1976 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: Fort Wayne, Indiana, 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: Useful 1970s 8mm road-travel footage for documentary inserts about American interstate driving, rural crossings, or family road trips.
Period detail: The wooden roadside welcome sign, open two-lane roadway, and faded 8mm color may show a mid-1970s U.S. road trip near a Colorado state border.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged passenger-window viewpoint from a moving car, preserving the ordinary experience of noticing a state welcome sign while traveling.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a paved rural road, shoulder lines, dry fields, a wooden Colorado welcome sign, low horizon, scattered trees, and film gate edges.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, slight blur from vehicle motion, purple-blue color shift, soft exposure, and contact-sheet frame edges.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a road-trip transition, geographic arrival insert, rural travel cutaway, or brief memory beat between locations.
Historical context: The scene documents open roadside landscape and automobile travel as seen through home-movie footage, without showing identifiable people or staged activity.
Research note: No people are visible, but the state welcome sign and any road authority design should be reviewed separately from film copyright and location claims.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1970s 8mm road trip, Colorado welcome sign, rural highway from car, Midwest-to-West travel footage, and vintage home movie driving.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel driving shots, then with 1976 Fort Wayne or Colorado-border travel material, then with rural road-trip themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1976 8mm road-trip frame showing a paved rural road, flat fields, and a distant wooden Colorado welcome sign. — A roadside welcome sign appears ahead beside a flat rural highway.

1976 8mm frame from a moving vehicle passing a Welcome to Colorful Colorado sign beside open rural land. — The car passes a wooden Welcome to Colorful Colorado roadside sign.

1976 8mm roadside view showing the Welcome to Colorful Colorado sign close to the car window, with dry fields behind it. — A closer pass of the Colorado welcome sign along the roadside.

1976 8mm driving frame showing an open highway stretching through flat grassy fields after the roadside sign has passed. — The road continues through open fields after the border sign sequence.

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