Worlds Fair Seattle-1974: Sunrise Sky-Line Turning from Orange to Yellow

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Year1974
Decade1970s
LocationSeattle, Washington, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Sunrise Sky-Line Turning from Orange to Yellow — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1974, this vintage home movie captures a serene sunrise over an unknown location, likely during the World's Fair in Seattle. The sky transitions from deep orange to golden yellow, with soft horizontal cloud layers and subtle film grain. Silhouetted hills and distant utility poles appear at the horizon, viewed through a dark frame border typical of Super 8 footage. The warm, nostalgic glow evokes a quiet morning atmosphere, perfect for historical 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: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125632777

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: Seattle, Washington, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s 8mm sunrise footage for editors needing a quiet sky insert, atmospheric transition, or archival nature cutaway without people or identifiable landmarks.
Period detail: The footage may show a 1970s home-movie sunrise view, with only distant hills, utility poles, film gate edges, and warm color response as visible era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a home-movie camera held on the changing sky rather than a staged scenic setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include layered orange and yellow clouds, a dark film-frame border, distant hill silhouettes, faint utility poles, dust specks, grain, and shifting sunrise color.
Film character: The 8mm texture shows visible grain, dust, soft exposure, warm color drift, and frame-edge shadows that give the sky shot its physical-film character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a sunrise insert, time-of-day transition, reflective pause, or memory beat between travel, family, or archival location scenes.
Historical context: The scene reflects a noncommercial home-movie view of dawn or early morning atmosphere, with no visible people, signage, landmarks, or event activity in the frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable property identifiers are visible, but copyright, location, and any underlying ownership questions still require normal review.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1970s 8mm sunrise sky, vintage home movie clouds, orange yellow dawn horizon, Super 8 sky cutaway, and archival morning landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then with verified Seattle or 1974 material if available, and finally with broader sunrise, sky, or travel-transition footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Warm sunrise sky with horizontal cloud bands, film grain, dust specks, and dark frame borders from 8mm home-movie footage. — Orange and yellow sunrise bands fill the frame within dark film-gate edges.

Layered dawn clouds above a dark horizon, with distant hills, a small utility pole silhouette, grain, and vertical film-frame edges. — Distant hills and a faint pole sit below layered sunrise clouds.

Golden-yellow cloud layers stretch across the sunrise sky, with low hill silhouettes, small pole shapes, dust marks, and visible 8mm frame borders. — Golden cloud bands brighten above a low silhouetted horizon.

Soft pink and orange cloud layers at dawn, with a shadowed horizon, visible grain, dust specks, and dark vertical frame edges. — The sunrise shifts toward pink and orange tones near the end of the clip.

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