Fort Wayne Indiana-1976: On The Road Through Grass

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

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On The Road Through Grass — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1976, this vintage home movie captures a rural journey through a vast green landscape. A vehicle moves across a grassy field under a deep purple sky, kicking up a trail of dust and debris. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly shaky, handheld camera movement, evoking a nostalgic sense of a forgotten road trip. The scene suggests a remote, agricultural area, possibly near Fort Wayne, Indiana, with the open field stretching to the horizon. This authentic archival clip offers a raw, unfiltered glimpse into mid-1970s Americana, perfect for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Handheld
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124452720

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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: 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: Supports requests for 1970s Midwestern road-travel or rural landscape footage for documentary inserts, memory sequences, and archival atmosphere.
Period detail: The footage may show a 1976 8mm home-movie view from a moving vehicle across open grassland near Fort Wayne, with no visible buildings, vehicles, people, or signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries the unstaged feel of a traveler filming through motion, holding briefly on the passing field rather than composing a formal landscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open green grass, a low horizon, purple-blue sky, motion blur, dust or debris trails, distant landforms, and the dark borders of the film frame.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows coarse grain, soft focus, color shift toward blue and purple, gate edges, and handheld or vehicle-induced vibration as part of its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural travel insert, road-trip transition, landscape cutaway, or brief memory beat between more identifiable scenes.
Historical context: As a home-movie landscape, it reflects a private roadside view of open rural space in the 1970s without enough visual evidence to identify a specific farm, road, or landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable property identifiers are visible, but users should still verify copyright, location claims, and any property concerns for their intended use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1976 8mm rural Indiana landscape, Fort Wayne home movie road trip, 1970s grass field travel footage, and vintage moving vehicle cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel road or landscape shots, then with other 1976 Fort Wayne material, then with broader 1970s rural travel or Americana themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1976 8mm home-movie frame from the Fort Wayne, Indiana metadata showing a moving view over green grass and a soft dust trail. — Motion-blurred open field with a pale dust trail crossing the horizon.

1976 8mm frame associated with Fort Wayne, Indiana, showing open grassland, a low horizon, and a blurred dust plume. — Dust or debris appears over the low grassland horizon as the camera moves past.

1976 8mm home-movie frame from the Fort Wayne clip showing dense green grass and a soft, distant dust mark near the horizon. — Dense grass in the foreground with a faint disturbance near the horizon.

1976 8mm frame linked to Fort Wayne, Indiana, showing a broad green field and distant low landforms under a color-shifted sky. — A wider rural view shows grassland extending toward distant low shapes on the horizon.

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