Ithaca New York-1979: Sunset On Sunrise Filmed From A Car Or Bus Window

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Year1979
Decade1970s
LocationIthaca, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Sunset On Sunrise Filmed From A Car Or Bus Window — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1979, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic sunset over a hazy landscape, likely filmed from a moving vehicle. The sun glows intensely at the horizon, casting vibrant orange and yellow light across the sky, with deep purple tones above. Silhouetted hills and a body of water are visible in the foreground. A small dark object, possibly a bird or distant aircraft, briefly appears in the sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight overexposure, evoking a nostalgic, authentic 1970s home movie feel. Ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects.

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: 125225818

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: 1979 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: Ithaca, New York, 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

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s 8mm home-movie sunset footage for documentary inserts, memory sequences, travel transitions, or atmospheric editorial use tied to Ithaca, New York.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1970s amateur filming practices through its brief vehicle-window view, contact-sheet framing, saturated color, and handheld exposure shifts.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged feel of a traveler filming a striking horizon from a moving car or bus rather than setting up a formal landscape shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a low sun at the horizon, orange and yellow cloud bands, purple sky, dark hills, haze, possible water, window-edge shadows, and film grain.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries dense grain, warm color drift, soft focus, slight overexposure around the sun, and dark frame edges that reinforce its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief transition, reflective cutaway, end-of-day insert, or memory beat between travel, landscape, or 1970s family-film scenes.
Historical context: As visual context, the clip records an ordinary roadside or passenger-window view of a dramatic sunset over a hazy landscape near Ithaca in 1979.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright status, source licensing, and any location-specific use concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1979 Ithaca sunset 8mm footage, 1970s home movie sky horizon, Super 8 car window sunset, and vintage upstate New York landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Ithaca or 1979 travel footage, then with broader sunset, road-trip, and reflective landscape themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1979 8mm frame from Ithaca showing a glowing sunset low over silhouetted hills, with haze and deep purple-orange sky tones. — The sun glows at the horizon beneath a band of orange cloud and dark hills.

Passenger-window view of the 1979 Ithaca sunset, with the sun flaring near the horizon and dark vertical frame shadows at the sides. — A bright sun sits just above the dark ridge line, framed by window or film-edge shadows.

Soft 8mm frame of the Ithaca sunset, with an overexposed yellow sun band, dark hills, haze, and a small speck in the sky. — The sunset flares brightly against a low, dark horizon with visible film grain.

1979 Ithaca-area horizon at sunset, with a broad yellow-orange glow, silhouetted hills, dark foreground, and soft 8mm grain. — A wide band of sunset light spreads over the ridge and hazy foreground.

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