Kentucky-1976: Horses Racing On A TV

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

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Horses Racing On A TV — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1976, this vintage home movie captures a horse race at a Kentucky racetrack, viewed through the grainy, purple-tinged lens of a television screen. Jockeys in colorful silks ride horses along the dirt track, with a blurred crowd visible in the foreground. The footage shows motion blur and film scratches, characteristic of Super 8 home recordings from the era. The image is framed by a dark TV border, suggesting it was recorded from a broadcast. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into 1970s American sports culture.

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: 125593241

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, museum, or educational edits needing archival home-movie material of horse racing seen through a television broadcast in Kentucky.
Period detail: The dark television bezel, soft CRT glow, and purple 8mm color shift support a mid-1970s home-recorded viewing context, with Kentucky and 1976 supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage carries the informal value of someone filming a televised race at home, preserving the act of watching sports as much as the race itself.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a TV screen border, blurred racehorses and jockeys, a racetrack rail, indistinct spectators, scan scratches, and soft broadcast text near the top of some frames.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, purple-blue color drift, soft focus, flickering exposure, and smeared motion that read as physical-film and CRT texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, memory beat, transition, or cutaway for 1970s sports viewing, horse racing, or televised American recreation.
Historical context: The frames show horse racing mediated through a television screen, placing the sporting event within a domestic viewing and broadcast culture context.
Research note: People appear only as small broadcast figures or spectators, but copyright in the source broadcast and any likeness or venue concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1976 Kentucky horse racing on TV, 1970s televised sports home movie, 8mm CRT screen footage, and vintage race broadcast cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1976 Kentucky material, then related 1970s horse racing, televised sports, CRT screen, or home-viewing footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1976 Kentucky home-movie frame of a televised horse race, with horses and track rail blurred inside a dark TV border. — A horse race appears on a television screen, softened by CRT blur and 8mm grain.

Televised horse race seen through a rounded CRT screen, with faint top-screen text and blurred horses on the track. — Racehorses move across a rounded television screen with faint broadcast text above.

A television cabinet with visible control area frames a soft broadcast view of horses racing along a track. — The TV cabinet and controls are visible beside the blurred race broadcast.

Televised Kentucky horse race with horses along the rail and a blurred crowd area at the bottom of the CRT image. — Horses run along the rail while the crowd area smears across the lower screen.

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