Kentucky-1976: A Young Man Smiles in Purple-Lit Home Movie Footage

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

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A Young Man Smiles in Purple-Lit Home Movie Footage — Clip Details

A young man with dark, styled hair smiles warmly in a close-up shot, captured on 8mm film in 1976. The footage is bathed in a strong purple hue, likely from indoor lighting or film processing, with visible grain and soft focus characteristic of home movies. He wears a collared shirt, and his expression shifts subtly as he appears to be engaged in conversation. The intimate, candid moment evokes a strong sense of nostalgia and personal memory from the mid-1970s.

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: 125591555

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 close-up useful for documentary or editorial sequences about private memory, conversation, and informal indoor social life.
Period detail: The collared shirt, soft hairstyle, indoor setting, and 8mm color cast may show mid-1970s home-movie style without identifying a specific place beyond the supplied Kentucky metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The young man appears relaxed and engaged with someone nearby, giving the clip an unstaged conversational quality typical of family-shot footage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a smiling young man, dark styled hair, a collared shirt, a second partially seen person, interior wall surfaces, sprocket-edge framing, and purple-tinted film exposure.
Film character: The footage has pronounced grain, soft focus, handheld framing, magenta-purple color shift, and contact-print edge marks that read as physical 8mm archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an intimate insert, reaction shot, memory beat, or transition within a 1970s family, youth, or indoor gathering sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents a private indoor social moment in Kentucky during the 1970s, with emphasis on expression and presence rather than public events or identifiable landmarks.
Research note: Faces and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property review may be needed separately from any copyright or source-format assessment.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1970s Kentucky home movie young man close-up, purple-tinted 8mm portrait, candid indoor conversation, and vintage family film reaction shot.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Kentucky 1976 interiors, then broader 1970s home-movie portraits and social gathering footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Young man in Kentucky home-movie footage smiles toward the camera in a soft, purple-tinted 1976 indoor close-up. — A young man smiles in a close-up framed by purple-shifted 8mm film color.

The young man remains in close-up, smiling slightly as the purple-tinted 8mm frame softens facial detail. — The close-up shifts as the man smiles and looks just off camera.

A cropped 1976 Kentucky home-movie frame shows the young man's face at left and another partially visible person low in the shot. — The handheld framing crops the man at left while another person appears at the bottom edge.

In the final frame, the young man smiles near an indoor wall, wearing a light turtleneck or high-collared top in purple-shifted 8mm footage. — A smiling young man stands near an interior wall in the purple-tinted home movie frame.

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