Wisconsin-1971: St. Patrick's Day Parade with Fire Department Truck

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1971 Wisconsin

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St. Patrick's Day Parade with Fire Department Truck — Clip Details

WISCONSIN-1971: A vibrant St. Patrick's Day parade unfolds with a red St. Paul Fire Department truck leading the procession. Men in suits and police officers in uniform mingle near the vehicle, while a crowd of onlookers, many wearing festive green hats and attire, watches from the sidelines. The scene captures the lively, communal spirit of the holiday with period clothing, vintage cars, and the characteristic grain of 8mm home movie footage from the early 1970s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125774997

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1007 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1971
Reel-level location note: Wisconsin,Michigan
Date: 1971 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Wisconsin, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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: Useful for 1970s archival requests needing St. Patrick's Day parade atmosphere, civic emergency services, police presence, and home-movie street-crowd coverage for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The frames show early-1970s clothing, vintage cars, uniformed police officers, a red fire department vehicle, and festive green parade accessories consistent with the 1971 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged spectator viewpoint, moving between officials near a fire department truck and a dense sidewalk crowd watching the parade.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red St. Paul Fire Department vehicle, police officers in dark uniforms, men in suits, traffic signals, vintage cars, parade spectators, green hats, and a decorative windmill-like parade ornament.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft grain, slight exposure variation, handheld framing, and contact-sheet gate edges that reinforce its home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short parade insert, civic-event cutaway, holiday memory beat, or transition between broader 1970s community celebration scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually places St. Patrick's Day as a public street celebration where emergency services, police, and local spectators share the same parade space.
Research note: People, faces, police uniforms, and fire department lettering are visible, so likeness, municipal insignia, and trademark or copyright questions should be reviewed separately from footage copyright.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1971 8mm St. Patrick's Day parade footage, Wisconsin home movie parade crowd, red fire department truck at holiday parade, or 1970s police street scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Wisconsin 1971 street or parade footage, then broader St. Patrick's Day, civic procession, and 1970s community-event material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1971 home-movie footage associated with Wisconsin, uniformed police officers and men in suits gather beside a red St. Paul Fire Department vehicle during a parade scene. — Officials beside a fire department vehicle.

Police officers and suited men remain clustered near a red fire department vehicle, with traffic lights and street details visible in the 1971 parade footage. — Police and suited men near the parade vehicle.

A St. Patrick's Day parade crowd in 1971 home-movie footage watches from the sidewalk, with green hats, coats, a red truck, and a decorative parade ornament visible. — Spectators wearing green along the parade route.

The crowd scene continues with seated and standing spectators, green St. Patrick's Day accessories, a red fire department vehicle in the background, and city street fixtures visible. — Crowd watches from the curbside.

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