Kentucky-1976: People Watching Horse Race on Television

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

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People Watching Horse Race on Television — Clip Details

KENTUCKY-1976: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a group of people watching a horse race on an old television set. The grainy, color-bleached footage shows riders and horses on the track, viewed through the curved screen of a retro TV. The scene shifts to a living room where a man with a mustache, a woman, and another man in a yellow shirt cheer and drink beer, their faces lit by the purple-hued glow of the screen. The film's characteristic grain and soft focus evoke a nostalgic 1970s home entertainment moment.

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: 125592061

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: Yes
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 Kentucky home-movie requests needing domestic television viewing, horse-racing fandom, beer drinking, or casual recreation footage.
Period detail: The curved television screen, soft color cast, beer can, shirts, and living-room setting support a mid-1970s domestic viewing context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged moment of adults reacting together to a televised horse race, with cheering and drinking in a private interior.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a rounded television screen, horses and riders on the broadcast, a living-room group, smiling adults, a beer can, soft focus, and purple-tinted color.
Film character: The 8mm footage has heavy grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and color fading that read as physical home-movie texture from an original film scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cutaway, memory beat, or insert for horse racing, televised sports, 1970s leisure, or family-room social viewing.
Historical context: The scene shows television as a shared domestic activity, with adults gathered around a race broadcast in a casual private setting.
Research note: People, faces, a private interior, and a visible beer can require likeness, property, and brand review separate from any film copyright assessment.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1970s Kentucky home movie horse race on TV, adults watching sports, beer drinking living room, and Super 8 television footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Kentucky 1976 interiors, then broader 1970s televised sports or home recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1976 Kentucky home-movie frame of a rounded television screen showing horses and riders on a race track. — A horse race appears on a curved television screen in the home-movie footage.

Soft 8mm view of a horse race playing on a rounded television screen in a Kentucky home setting. — The broadcast race fills the old television screen, with riders faintly visible on the track.

Color-faded 8mm frame of a television race broadcast, with the track and riders barely visible through soft exposure. — The race broadcast becomes bright and indistinct on the television screen.

1976 Kentucky home-movie frame of adults smiling and cheering in a private living room while watching television. — Adults react to the televised race, with one man holding a beer can near the camera.

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