Fort Wayne Indiana-1976: View From A Red Car As It Drives Along A Four Lane Highway

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

View From A Red Car As It Drives Along A Four Lane Highway — Clip Details

Shot from inside a red car in 1976, this vintage 8mm home movie captures a scenic drive along a four-lane highway through a mountainous landscape. A classic light-colored sedan travels ahead on the winding road under a dramatic sky filled with puffy white clouds. The footage shows a sun-drenched rural setting with grassy fields and distant peaks, viewed through the windshield with the dashboard visible at the bottom. The film exhibits natural grain and color shifts typical of Super 8 footage from the era, offering authentic archival footage of mid-70s American road travel.

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: 124452837

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.

Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s 8mm road-travel footage for documentary edits needing an in-car highway view, rural landscape, and period family-trip atmosphere.
Period detail: The light-colored older sedan, open four-lane road, red dashboard edge, and 8mm color suggest a mid-1970s automobile travel scene.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the informal passenger-seat perspective of a home movie, watching traffic and landscape through the windshield rather than staging the drive.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red car hood, windshield wiper, four-lane highway, pale sedan ahead, grassy shoulders, distant ridgeline, bright clouds, and blue sky.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, saturated blue-purple color shift, soft focus, rounded frame edges, and slight handheld vehicle movement.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a road-trip insert, travel transition, scenic cutaway, or memory beat between family or vacation sequences.
Historical context: The view documents everyday car travel on a broad rural highway, with open roadside fields and distant hills seen from inside a moving vehicle.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location accuracy, and any vehicle identification should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1970s 8mm highway drive, vintage in-car road view, red car windshield travel footage, and rural American road trip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Fort Wayne or 1976 travel material if verified, then broader vintage highway and road-trip clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1976 8mm home-movie view from inside a red car traveling on a four-lane highway with a pale sedan ahead and distant hills under large clouds. — Windshield view of a sedan ahead on a broad highway beneath a dramatic cloudscape.

1976 in-car highway view showing a pale sedan ahead on a curving four-lane road, with fields and a distant ridgeline below a clouded sky. — A pale sedan travels ahead as the highway bends through open countryside.

1976 8mm windshield view from a red car following a pale sedan on a wide rural highway, with open land and distant hills under heavy clouds. — The following car keeps pace behind a pale sedan on an open rural highway.

1976 8mm road-travel frame looking past the highway edge toward open fields, distant hills, and a broad sky of bright clouds. — The camera looks across the highway edge toward fields, hills, and a cloud-filled horizon.

Visually Similar Clips