Kentucky-1976: One Of The First Live Broadcasts Of The Kentucky Derby On One Of

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

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One Of The First Live Broadcasts Of The Kentucky Derby... — Clip Details

KENTUCKY-1976: A grainy, purple-tinted 8mm home movie captures the first live television broadcast of the Kentucky Derby. The footage shows a vintage CRT television screen displaying the horse race, with jockeys and horses racing on a dirt track. The image is distorted with scan lines and color bleed, characteristic of early home video recordings. A finger points at the screen, emphasizing the moment of watching history unfold. This archival clip evokes nostalgia for 1970s Americana and the dawn of live sports broadcasting.

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: 125592057

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 documentary edits needing home-movie evidence of a Kentucky household watching televised horse racing on a CRT screen.
Period detail: The rounded television screen, color bleed, scan-line bands, and 8mm source may show a mid-1970s domestic viewing setup.
Home-movie behavior: The camera records the television from close range, with a pointing finger briefly marking the race action as someone watches along.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a CRT television screen, horse-race broadcast imagery, track rails, small horses and jockeys, dark screen edges, film gate borders, and a pointing hand.
Film character: The clip has purple-blue color drift, soft focus, visible grain, exposure bloom, and contact-print frame edges typical of scanned small-gauge home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, memory beat, or transition for 1970s television viewing, sports spectatorship, or Kentucky Derby coverage.
Historical context: The footage documents the social act of watching a horse race on television rather than filming the track directly.
Research note: Review for broadcast-program copyright and any identifiable likeness in the televised content; the pointing hand raises limited likeness concern but no face is visible.
Research search match: Researchers may search for 1970s 8mm home movie CRT television horse race Kentucky Derby broadcast viewing footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Kentucky 1976 material, then other 1970s television, sports, or home-viewing clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1976 Kentucky home-movie frame showing purple film cast, dark frame edges, and a mostly blank television or screen area. — Purple-tinted opening frame with dark film borders and a washed screen area.

1976 Kentucky home-movie view of a rounded CRT screen showing horses and jockeys racing behind pale track rails. — CRT broadcast view of a horse race with rails crossing the screen.

Soft 8mm frame of a CRT television showing a horse race broadcast, with pale rails and small racing figures near the bottom. — Blurred televised horse race seen through the rounded CRT screen.

1976 Kentucky home-movie frame with a hand pointing at a CRT screen as horses race behind pale track rails. — A finger points at the televised horse race on the CRT screen.

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