Kentucky-1976: A Group Of Friends Gathering In A Dimly Lit Room

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Year1976
Decade1970s
LocationKentucky, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1976 Kentucky

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A Group Of Friends Gathering In A Dimly Lit Room — Clip Details

A group of young men gather in a dimly lit room, captured on 8mm film in 1976. The footage shows them sitting together, some holding drinks, with a relaxed, casual atmosphere. The color palette is heavily tinted blue and green, typical of vintage home movies, with visible film grain and vertical scratches. Their clothing—shirts, sweaters, and one man wearing a festive hat—reflects late 1970s fashion. The scene conveys a sense of camaraderie and nostalgia, likely a casual get-together among friends.

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: 125591116

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: 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 1015 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: kentucky derby party
Reel-level year note: 1976-1980
Reel-level location note: kentucky
Date: 1976 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Kentucky, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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: 1970s Kentucky home-movie footage for documentary or editorial requests needing an informal indoor gathering of young adult men.
Period detail: The shirts, sweater vest, long hair, mustache, and festive cap may show mid-1970s casual social style in a private interior.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves unstaged social behavior as friends sit close together, hold drinks, look toward the camera, and appear relaxed in a dim room.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include seated young men, drinking glasses or cans, a wall picture, a pale interior wall, casual shirts, a sweater vest, and a patterned cap.
Film character: The 8mm scan has dense grain, blue-green color shift, soft focus, low-light exposure, vertical scratches, and handheld home-movie framing.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, social cutaway, party-memory beat, or transition into a 1970s personal-life sequence.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for a small private gathering, emphasizing domestic leisure and peer interaction rather than a public event.
Research note: Faces and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property permissions may need review separate from any footage copyright status.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1970s Kentucky home movie, 8mm friends indoors, vintage party gathering, young men drinking, and private room social scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel social interiors, then with Kentucky 1976 material, and then with broader 1970s home-movie friendship or party footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1976 Kentucky 8mm frame showing young men seated together in a dim private interior with strong blue-green tint. — Several friends sit closely together in a dark room, with one figure turned toward the camera.

1976 Kentucky home-movie frame of three young men seated against a wall, one wearing a patterned cap. — Three men sit side by side beneath a wall picture during the indoor gathering.

1976 Kentucky 8mm frame showing friends seated indoors as one man in a cap drinks from a small container. — A man in a patterned cap drinks while two others sit beside him in the dim interior.

1976 Kentucky home-movie frame with two men seated near a pale wall and a standing figure partly visible at right. — Two men sit along the wall while another person stands partly outside the frame.

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