Worlds Fair Seattle-1974: Cloud Formations in Multi-Colored Sky

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

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Cloud Formations in Multi-Colored Sky — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1974, this vintage home movie captures a serene sunset sky over Seattle during the World's Fair. The frame shows a dramatic expanse of clouds painted in soft hues of blue, pink, and peach, with a dark silhouette of a pine tree and distant hills visible at the horizon. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and subtle scratches typical of Super 8 footage, evoking a nostalgic, peaceful atmosphere. This archival clip offers a quiet, contemplative moment of nature's beauty from a classic era of American home cinema.

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: 125632806

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s 8mm archive requests needing a quiet sky, sunset, or contemplative nature cutaway from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames show no specific landmarks or dated objects, though the color, grain, and home-movie framing support the supplied 1970s 8mm context.
Home-movie behavior: The footage reflects an unstaged home-movie habit of pausing on changing clouds and fading light rather than recording a planned event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include layered clouds, blue and peach sky, distant dark hills, a silhouetted tree edge, horizon line, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm grain, mild color fading, slight scratches, and exposure shifts that give the sky a physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief transition, reflective insert, time-passing cutaway, or memory beat between human or place-based scenes.
Historical context: As visual context, the clip preserves a domestic 1970s gaze toward sky and landscape without showing identifiable people, signage, or public landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any collection-specific restrictions separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1970s 8mm sunset sky, vintage home movie clouds, Super 8 cloud formations, and archival nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with confirmed same-year or same-location material, then with other vintage sky and landscape shots.

Still Frames From This Clip

Soft 8mm frame of layered clouds lit by fading evening color, with blue sky, peach highlights, and dark vertical film edges. — Layered clouds fill a blue and peach evening sky.

Pastel cloud formations stretch across the frame, with soft purple shadows, peach light, and visible 8mm film borders. — Pastel cloud formations drift across the upper sky.

Fading sunset light glows beneath broad clouds above distant dark hills, with a silhouetted tree edge entering from the left. — A dark horizon and tree silhouette sit beneath a clouded sunset.

Cloud layers and warm sunset color spread over a low dark horizon, with a small silhouetted tree shape near the lower left edge. — Warm sunset color fades over distant hills and cloud layers.

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