Kentucky-1976: Horses On Television And Betters Watching To Make A Bid

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

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Horses On Television And Betters Watching To Make A Bid — Clip Details

KENTUCKY-1976: A grainy, purple-tinted 8mm home movie captures a vintage television set in a dimly lit room, its screen glowing with a horse race. A man in a light-colored shirt watches intently, his profile visible as he follows the action. The footage, shot on Super 8 film, shows the flickering broadcast of a horse race, likely from a Kentucky Derby or similar event, with the audience's focus on the screen. The grainy texture and color shift suggest a home recording from the mid-1970s, evoking a sense of nostalgia and personal memory.

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: 125591510

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: Useful for 1970s archival requests needing home-viewing footage of televised horse racing, betting culture, or domestic entertainment in Kentucky.
Period detail: The clip may show a 1970s living-room television setup, with a rounded CRT screen, dim interior light, and color-shifted 8mm film consistent with the supplied 1976 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The home-movie value is in the informal act of watching a race broadcast at close range, with the camera lingering on the TV and a nearby viewer rather than staging a scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a glowing CRT television, dim room furnishings, a person in a light shirt, indistinct broadcast imagery, dark vertical film edges, and purple film tint.
Film character: The footage has dense grain, purple-blue color shift, soft focus, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that read as physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cutaway, memory beat, or transitional insert for stories about televised racing, at-home spectatorship, or 1970s leisure habits.
Historical context: The scene reflects private domestic viewing of a horse race broadcast, connecting the public spectacle of racing to an intimate home environment without identifying the event.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property review may be needed even if no clear logos or audible music are evident from the supplied metadata.
Research search match: Search matches include 1970s Kentucky home movie television horse race, Super 8 CRT racing broadcast, vintage betting viewers, and domestic horse racing footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Kentucky 1976 footage, then related clips of horse racing, television viewing, gambling, or domestic leisure.

Still Frames From This Clip

Purple-shifted 1976 Kentucky home-movie frame showing a dim private room and the edge of a glowing CRT television screen. — A dim interior frame catches only part of the television glow.

A 1976 Kentucky home-movie frame centers a CRT television showing an indistinct horse-race broadcast in a dim interior. — The television screen glows in the dark room during the race broadcast.

Purple-tinted 8mm frame of a CRT television in a Kentucky interior, with the racing broadcast washed out by screen brightness. — A close television view shows the broadcast as a bright flickering field.

A viewer in a light shirt appears near the television area in this 1976 Kentucky home-movie frame, with facial detail obscured by blur and low light. — A viewer turns near the television in the dim room.

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