Fort Wayne Indiana-1976: Cruising Along In Our Blue Volkswagen Beetle Down The Highway

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

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Cruising Along In Our Blue Volkswagen Beetle Down The... — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1976 captures a classic blue Volkswagen Beetle cruising along a sun-drenched highway in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The footage shows the car navigating a winding road with a concrete overpass and rolling hills under a bright blue sky. Interior shots reveal a driver at the wheel, with a passenger visible, offering a nostalgic glimpse of a 1970s road trip. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a sense of Americana and personal memory.

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: 124452871

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: 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: This 1970s 8mm home-movie clip helps documentary and editorial researchers illustrate everyday highway travel, road-trip movement, and passenger-car views in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Period detail: The rounded blue Volkswagen Beetle, open-window driving posture, highway overpass, and saturated 8mm color support a mid-1970s road-travel setting, with the 1976 date supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged passenger perspective, alternating between watching the car on the road and looking from inside the vehicle at the driver and passing landscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue Beetle on a divided highway, a concrete overpass, rolling hills, power poles, windshield wipers, open car windows, a driver at the wheel, and bright summer sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows dense grain, high color saturation, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that give the clip clear home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, travel transition, roadway cutaway, or memory beat connecting personal mobility with 1970s Americana.
Historical context: The clip visually situates private car travel within a highway landscape, showing both the exterior road environment and the intimate interior viewpoint of a home-movie passenger.
Research note: People and faces are visible and may require likeness review, while copyright, vehicle appearance, and any location or property identifications should be evaluated separately before reuse.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1970s 8mm highway driving, Fort Wayne Indiana home movie road trip, blue Volkswagen Beetle on highway, and vintage passenger car interior footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1976 Fort Wayne travel scenes, and then with broader 1970s highway, family road-trip, and classic-car home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

A blue Volkswagen Beetle appears on a sunlit highway near a concrete overpass in Fort Wayne, Indiana, based on clip metadata. — Blue Beetle on the highway approaching an overpass.

Inside the moving car, an adult driver is silhouetted through the open side window while holding the steering wheel during the 1970s road sequence. — Driver at the wheel through the open window.

A passenger-side windshield view shows roadside grass, a distant highway area, low hills, and bright clouds during the Fort Wayne road-trip footage. — Windshield view of the passing highway landscape.

The final frame looks through the car windshield across open roadside ground, distant roadway structures, utility poles, and low hills under a bright sky. — Open roadside landscape seen through the windshield.

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