Kentucky-1976: A Happy Beautiful Woman Celebrates Her Birthday

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

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A Happy Beautiful Woman Celebrates Her Birthday — Clip Details

A young couple shares a joyful birthday moment in this 1976 8mm home movie from Kentucky. A woman in a light-colored top smiles brightly as a man in a dark t-shirt with 'HELLO' printed on it reaches toward a cake with lit candles. The scene is bathed in a strong purple hue, characteristic of vintage film, with visible grain and soft focus. The couple sits closely on a patterned couch, their expressions filled with warmth and celebration, capturing an intimate, nostalgic slice of 1970s domestic life.

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: 125592284

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 domestic birthday, family celebration, and home-movie memory sequences in documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions.
Period detail: The clothing, couch fabric, candlelit cake, and 8mm color cast may show a mid-1970s private birthday gathering in Kentucky, consistent with supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the informal closeness: a seated couple smiling, leaning together, and reacting naturally as candles burn nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a smiling woman, a man in a dark HELLO shirt, lit birthday candles, a patterned couch, soft interior lighting, and heavy purple film tint.
Film character: The scan has strong grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, handheld framing, and purple-magenta fading that give the clip clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a warm birthday insert, a home-life cutaway, a transition into family memory, or a brief visual beat of celebration.
Historical context: The scene offers a small view of private 1970s social life, showing an intimate indoor celebration rather than a public event or identifiable landmark.
Research note: Faces, a private interior, and readable shirt text are visible, so likeness, property, and possible trademark review may be needed in addition to copyright status.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1976 Kentucky 8mm birthday home movie, 1970s couple celebrating, lit candles family footage, and vintage domestic party scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Kentucky or 1976 home movies, then broader birthday, couple, celebration, and domestic-life clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a 1976 Kentucky home-movie frame, a man in a dark HELLO shirt and a smiling woman sit beside lit birthday candles. — A seated couple shares a candlelit birthday moment indoors.

The woman smiles near a man in a HELLO shirt while birthday candles flare in the soft, purple-tinted 8mm frame. — The couple remains seated as candlelight flares in the foreground.

A soft-focus 8mm close view shows the smiling woman in a light top seated close to the man during the birthday scene. — A closer angle emphasizes the woman's smile and the intimate couch setting.

The woman leans forward toward glowing birthday candles, with the man in the dark shirt partly visible behind her. — The woman leans toward the candlelight as the birthday moment continues.

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