Worlds Fair Seattle-1974: A Few Hay Bales Sit In An Otherwise Empty Field With

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Year1974
Decade1970s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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A Few Hay Bales Sit In An Otherwise Empty Field With — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1974, this vintage home movie captures a quiet rural scene at the World's Fair in Seattle. A single hay bale sits in the foreground of a vast, dry field, with additional bales scattered across the rolling landscape in the distance. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and a slightly faded quality characteristic of 1970s home movies. The camera remains mostly static, offering a peaceful, nostalgic glimpse of agricultural life during the era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125632862

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 as 1970s archival home-movie footage for productions needing a quiet rural field cutaway, agricultural insert, or understated landscape transition.
Period detail: The dry field, rounded hay bales, soft color, and 8mm texture may show a modest 1970s rural or fairground-adjacent landscape without identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The mostly static framing gives the scene the observational feel of a home-movie camera pausing on an ordinary field detail rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a rounded hay bale, dry grass, rolling open field, distant scattered bales, a thin tree line, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The scan shows warm faded color, visible 8mm grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing that preserve the physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm agricultural insert, rural establishing detail, pause between busier scenes, or memory beat within a 1970s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually places hay bales in an open landscape, offering general agricultural context without enough evidence to confirm the exact site or event shown.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location-specific property considerations separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1970s 8mm hay bale field footage, vintage home movie agriculture cutaway, rural dry field landscape, and archival farm insert.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with confirmed same-year or same-location material, and finally with broader 1970s rural or agricultural footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A rounded hay bale sits in a dry field, framed by dark 8mm film borders and soft 1970s home-movie color. — Rounded hay bale in a dry open field.

A single rounded hay bale appears in a dry field, with a dark horizontal shadow and soft 8mm grain. — Single hay bale with shadow across the field.

A rounded hay bale fills more of the frame in a dry grass field, seen through faded 8mm home-movie color. — Closer view of the hay bale in dry grass.

A hay bale sits in the foreground of a rolling dry field, with additional small bales and a distant tree line visible. — Foreground hay bale with distant bales across the field.

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