Worlds Fair Seattle-1974: As the Sun Sets the Clouds Sweep Across the Wide Open Sky

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Year1974
Decade1970s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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As the Sun Sets the Clouds Sweep Across the Wide Open Sky — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1974, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping sunset over an open landscape, likely near the World's Fair in Seattle. Warm golden and orange hues dominate the sky as clouds drift across the frame, with silhouetted hills visible on the horizon. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight flicker, and natural film imperfections, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. Birds occasionally cross the sky, adding subtle motion to the serene, wide-open scene.

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: 125632764

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1974 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Not recorded Unidentified (Insufficient evidence for a responsible conclusion.)
Location evidence: No location is recorded for this clip.
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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s home-movie productions needing a brief atmospheric sunset sky insert, transition, or archival nature cutaway without visible people or signage.
Period detail: The frames show no identifiable landmarks, but the warm color, grain, gate edges, and soft exposure are consistent with 1970s 8mm home-movie footage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects an unstaged home-movie habit of lingering on a changing sky, recording light and cloud movement rather than a formal event or posed subject.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include orange sunset clouds, pale sky, dark hill silhouettes, film gate edges, dust specks, soft vignetting, and brief bird shapes in the sky.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture through visible grain, slight flicker, uneven exposure, dust, and soft focus that preserve the feel of a scanned physical reel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet transition, memory beat, atmospheric insert, or end-of-day cutaway within a 1970s archival sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents a personal view of open sky and distant terrain, offering environmental mood rather than specific evidence of a public fair, landmark, or city setting.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but copyright and source permissions should still be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1970s 8mm sunset sky, vintage home movie clouds, archival orange horizon, Super 8 nature cutaway, and wide open sky footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with confirmed Seattle or 1974 material if available, and finally with sunset, sky, or contemplative travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1970s 8mm frame showing a pale sunset sky with soft pink and blue tones, dark gate edges, and visible film dust. — Pastel sky fills the frame with film gate edges and small surface marks visible.

Warm sunset sky with layered orange clouds and a dark silhouetted horizon in archival 8mm footage. — Layered orange clouds sit above a dark hill silhouette at sunset.

1970s 8mm view of a wide sunset sky with horizontal orange cloud bands and a low dark horizon. — Wide sunset cloud bands stretch across the sky over a low silhouette.

Golden-orange cloud layers drift over a dark ridge line in a scanned 8mm home-movie frame. — Golden cloud layers fill the frame above a dark ridge at the bottom.

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