Worlds Fair Seattle-1974: Dramatic Sunset at World's Fair Seattle

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

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Dramatic Sunset at World's Fair Seattle — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1974, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic sunset at the World's Fair in Seattle. Golden sunlight bursts through a thick layer of clouds, casting radiant beams across the sky. The silhouette of distant hills frames the horizon as the sun dips below, transitioning the sky from warm gold to deep blue. A lone bird glides across the frame, adding motion to the serene, nostalgic scene. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and natural film imperfections. Ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 125632795

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

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: 1970s 8mm home-movie sky footage for productions needing an atmospheric sunrise or sunset insert, natural horizon transition, or reflective archive texture.
Period detail: The frames may show 1974 amateur color 8mm footage, with no visible landmarks, people, signage, or architecture to confirm a specific location or event.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the changing sky from a quiet, unstaged viewpoint, emphasizing the home-movie act of filming light, clouds, and horizon rather than a planned scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a low sun glow, dark horizon line, layered clouds, blue and gold sky, silhouetted ridge forms, film gate edges, and a small bird-like speck.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm color grain, soft focus, exposure shifts, frame-edge shadowing, and slight registration variation that read as original physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a contemplative cutaway, time-of-day transition, memory beat, or atmospheric bridge between travel, family, or historical sequences.
Historical context: The footage reflects a 1970s home-movie interest in recording dramatic natural light, but the visible frames do not identify a fairground, city, or named landmark.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, though copyright status and any location-related permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1970s 8mm sky footage, vintage home movie sunset, amateur film cloud horizon, and Super 8 style dawn or dusk cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then with footage from the same stated year or trip context, and finally with related sky, travel, or memory-themed shots.

Still Frames From This Clip

1970s 8mm frame showing a bright low sun glow under a dark cloud band and silhouetted horizon, with visible film edge shadowing. — Low golden light breaks beneath a dark cloud bank at the horizon.

Low sun or sunset light spreads across the horizon beneath layered clouds, with a dark ridge silhouette and 8mm frame-edge shadows. — Bright light spreads along the horizon below layered clouds.

1970s 8mm sky frame with blue upper sky, purple-gold cloud layers, and a dark lower horizon softened by film grain. — Clouds shift to blue and purple tones above the dark horizon.

Soft 8mm frame of layered clouds crossing a blue sky, with a low dark horizon and visible color shift from earlier golden light. — Layered clouds drift across a cooler blue sky over the horizon.

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