Kentucky-1976: Friends Watching Kentucky Derby Odds on Vintage TV

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

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Friends Watching Kentucky Derby Odds on Vintage TV — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1976, this vintage home movie captures a dimly lit room where friends gather to watch the Kentucky Derby. The grainy, purple-tinted footage shows an old television displaying the race's current odds, with names like 'Jocko Magoo' and 'Super Moment' visible. Two men sit closely together, their faces illuminated by the screen's glow, one in a striped polo shirt, the other in a light-colored shirt, both focused on the broadcast. The scene evokes a nostalgic, intimate moment of shared excitement from a bygone 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: 125593082

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: This 1970s Kentucky home-movie clip helps document a small private gathering watching horse-racing odds on a vintage television for documentary, museum, or editorial sequences about sports viewing and domestic leisure.
Period detail: The boxy television set, dim interior, striped polo shirt, and grainy 8mm color palette support a mid-1970s domestic setting, with the Kentucky Derby context supplied by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage preserves an unstaged moment of friends sitting close together in a private room, reacting to a televised racing broadcast rather than posing formally for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a glowing vintage television, a racing-odds screen with partially legible horse names, dark room furnishings, two seated adult men, sunglasses, a striped polo shirt, and heavy film grain.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, purple-blue color shift, low-light exposure, soft focus, and handheld framing that give the scene a clearly physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, cutaway, or memory beat for home viewing, Kentucky Derby anticipation, sports-betting context, or 1970s television culture.
Historical context: The scene reflects a social viewing habit in a private interior, where friends appear to follow televised racing information together on a household TV set.
Research note: Adult faces, a private interior, possible broadcast graphics or text, and private-property context are visible, so likeness, property, and broadcast/copyright questions should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1970s Kentucky home movie, 8mm friends watching television, vintage TV horse racing odds, Kentucky Derby home viewing, and private-room sports broadcast footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby footage from the same reel, then other 1976 Kentucky material, then broader clips of friends watching television, horse racing, domestic recreation, or vintage broadcast screens.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a dim 1976 Kentucky home interior, a boxy television glows while dark furnishings and papers or objects sit below the screen. — Vintage television in a dark viewing room.

Close 8mm view of a vintage television screen in Kentucky showing racing-odds text, with some horse names only partly readable through glare and blur. — Television screen with racing odds.

A vintage TV fills the frame with horse-racing odds and partially legible names, consistent with the 1976 Kentucky Derby viewing context in the clip metadata. — Racing odds on the TV screen.

Two adult men sit close together in a private Kentucky interior during the 1976 home-movie clip, one in sunglasses and a light shirt and the other in a striped polo shirt. — Two men watching together indoors.

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