Kentucky-1976: Friends Gather At A 1970s Party With Drinks And Laughter

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

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Friends Gather At A 1970s Party With Drinks And Laughter — Clip Details

KENTUCKY-1976: A grainy 8mm home movie captures a lively indoor party with friends in the 1970s. The footage shows a man in a striped polo shirt speaking animatedly, another man in sunglasses, and a woman laughing while holding a drink. The scene is bathed in a strong purple-blue color cast, typical of vintage Super 8 film, with visible grain and soft focus. The casual atmosphere and period clothing evoke authentic 1970s nostalgia, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or retro-themed projects.

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: 125593110

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: Useful for 1970s archive requests needing brief home-movie party footage of adults socializing indoors in Kentucky.
Period detail: Period clues include striped polo shirts, casual indoor gathering clothes, drink cups, and a soft 8mm color palette consistent with 1970s home movies.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves unstaged party behavior as adults laugh, drink, face the camera, and one man speaks animatedly into a small handheld microphone.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include adult party guests, drink cups, a striped polo shirt, sunglasses, curtains, interior walls, and a handheld microphone.
Film character: The 8mm footage has heavy grain, soft focus, handheld framing, uneven exposure, and a purple-blue color cast that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quick memory beat, social-life cutaway, or transition into a sequence about 1970s parties and informal friendship groups.
Historical context: The scene shows a private indoor gathering where adults appear relaxed with drinks, offering social context for casual middle-American home entertainment in the 1970s.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property permissions may require review separate from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1976 Kentucky 8mm home movie party, 1970s friends drinking indoors, vintage social gathering, and Super 8 party footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Kentucky 1976 home movies, then broader 1970s indoor party or friends socializing clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Adult woman at a 1976 Kentucky indoor party drinks from a cup as another person stands nearby in soft 8mm footage. — A woman drinks from a cup during the indoor gathering.

At a 1976 Kentucky party, a man stands with his back to camera while a woman laughs and holds a drink indoors. — A laughing woman with a drink stands near a man facing away from the camera.

A man in a striped polo speaks into a small microphone beside another man in sunglasses at a 1976 Kentucky indoor party. — A party guest holds a small microphone while another man sits beside him.

Two adult men sit in a private interior, one holding a small microphone, in grainy 1976 Kentucky 8mm party footage. — Two men sit together as the man in the striped shirt gestures with a microphone.

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