Worlds Fair Seattle-1974: Rural Sunset with Hay Mound in Field

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

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Rural Sunset with Hay Mound in Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1974, this vintage home movie captures a serene sunset over a rural landscape. The sky glows with warm oranges and yellows above a dark silhouette of rolling hills, with scattered clouds catching the fading light. The final frame reveals a single hay mound resting in a grassy field, evoking a quiet, nostalgic countryside moment. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, with natural film imperfections and a dark border framing the scene. This authentic slice of everyday life is 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: 125632848

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 footage for productions needing a quiet rural sunset, landscape cutaway, or countryside memory insert.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly the 8mm color palette, film border, and home-movie framing, with no identifiable place, landmark, or dated object in the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The camera lingers on an unstaged sunset and a hay mound, preserving a casual home-movie attention to light, weather, and rural surroundings.
What appears in frame: The frames show a warm sunset sky, scattered clouds, dark rolling hills, a grassy field, a single hay mound, film gate edges, and soft handheld exposure.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, warm color saturation, slight softness, gate borders, and exposure shifts that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a reflective transition, rural establishing insert, end-of-day cutaway, or brief memory beat between human scenes.
Historical context: The footage may show everyday 1970s rural scenery, but the frames do not support a specific location or connection to the Seattle World's Fair title.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable property markers are visible, but copyright, location, and land-access questions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful matches include 1970s 8mm rural sunset, vintage home movie hay field, Super 8 countryside cutaway, and archival sunset over hills.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with confirmed same-year or same-region material, then with rural landscape and sunset themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1970s 8mm frame showing a warm sunset behind silhouetted hills, with clouds catching orange light and dark film gate edges visible. — Sunset colors spread above a dark hill line in a rural landscape.

Warm sunset light and pink-orange clouds sit above a silhouetted ridge, framed by dark 8mm film borders. — Clouds catch the last light above the low hills.

A home-movie sunset view shows orange cloud bands over a dark, uneven horizon with visible film softness and border shadows. — A wider sunset view holds on the cloud bands and silhouetted landscape.

A rounded hay mound rests in a grassy field, with soft 8mm grain, muted color, and dark frame borders visible. — A lone hay mound sits low in the grass.

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