Kentucky-1976: Sitting Around And Watching A Sports Event

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

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Sitting Around And Watching A Sports Event — Clip Details

A grainy 8mm home movie from 1976 captures a dimly lit living room where a family watches a sports event on a vintage television. The screen glows with a purple hue, displaying a blurry game, while a hand reaches toward the set. The scene evokes a nostalgic, intimate atmosphere of mid-70s domestic life, with household items visible on a cabinet behind the TV. The footage, shot on Super 8 film, shows natural film grain and slight motion blur, characteristic of home recordings from the era.

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: 125591531

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 domestic-life requests needing a brief Kentucky home-movie view of people watching a televised sports event indoors.
Period detail: The boxy television, dim living-room setting, and Super 8 color cast support a mid-1970s home-viewing atmosphere without identifying the broadcast.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an informal family viewing moment, with a hand moving near the television as people watch from close range.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a glowing television screen, a reaching arm or hand, dark furniture, household objects on a cabinet, a bowl, and heavy film shadow.
Film character: The footage has dense grain, purple-blue color shift, soft focus, exposure bloom from the TV screen, and handheld framing typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, memory beat, or domestic cutaway for scenes about televised sports, family leisure, or 1970s home interiors.
Historical context: The scene reflects private home recreation around a shared television, with the broadcast content indistinct and the living-room details more legible than the event.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property review may be needed in addition to any copyright questions around the televised material.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1976 Kentucky home movie television watching, 1970s family watching sports, Super 8 living room TV, and vintage domestic leisure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Kentucky 1976 interiors, then broader 1970s television-watching or family recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1976 Kentucky home-movie frame showing a glowing television in a dark living room with a person close to the set. — A person sits close to a glowing television in a dim home interior.

1976 Kentucky interior with a boxy television glowing beneath household items on a cabinet or shelf. — The television glows in a dark living room with household items above it.

A hand or arm moves near the glowing television during a 1976 Kentucky home-movie view of family TV watching. — A hand reaches toward the television as the room remains mostly in shadow.

A close forearm crosses the bright television screen in a dark Kentucky living-room home movie from 1976. — A forearm passes between the camera and the glowing television screen.

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