Wisconsin-1971: St. Patrick's Day Parade with Snowman Float and Pink Castle

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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 Snowman Float and Pink Castle — Clip Details

WISCONSIN-1971: A vibrant St. Patrick's Day parade unfolds on a city street, featuring a festive float with a large snowman figure and pink castle-like towers. Participants in formal attire, including women in light-colored coats and green skirts, stand on the float as it moves past onlookers. The scene is captured on 8mm film, showing characteristic grain and color saturation of the era. A close-up frame reveals a handwritten date label: 'MAR. 18, 1971,' confirming the event's date. The footage captures the celebratory mood of a mid-1970s community holiday parade.

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: 125775150

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: No
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 Upper Midwest parade requests, St. Patrick's Day community celebration edits, and documentary inserts needing amateur 8mm street-pageant footage.
Period detail: The handwritten March 18, 1971 label, formal parade dress, pale green skirts, snowman figure, and castle-style float details support an early 1970s holiday-parade setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the float from curbside at spectator height, preserving a brief visitor-shot view as participants face the street and pass the lens.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a snowman figure, pink castle turrets, women in pale coats and green skirts, uniformed marchers, an Irish tricolor flag, spectators, street lamps, and a date label.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, saturated color, visible grain, gate edges, and slight handheld framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short holiday parade insert, a community-memory cutaway, or a transition into 1970s civic celebration material.
Historical context: The clip shows a public St. Patrick's Day parade float with costumed and formally dressed participants, suggesting local civic pageantry without identifying the sponsoring group.
Research note: Faces are visible and the float signage is partly readable, so likeness, event identity, and any signage claims should be reviewed separately from film copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1971 Wisconsin 8mm St. Patrick's Day parade, vintage snowman float, pink castle parade float, and home movie holiday street parade.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other scenes from the same reel, then Wisconsin 1971 street footage, then vintage St. Patrick's Day or civic parade material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Wisconsin parade float with a snowman figure, pink castle-like turrets, riders in pale coats and green skirts, and marchers in dark uniforms. — A St. Patrick's Day parade float passes with a snowman figure, pink turrets, riders, and uniformed marchers.

1971 Wisconsin St. Patrick's Day parade scene with the snowman float moving past spectators and a uniformed marcher crossing the foreground. — The snowman and castle-themed float continues down the street as a uniformed marcher moves in front.

Close-up 8mm frame showing a handwritten date label, MAR. 18, 1971, with soft focus and visible film texture. — A handwritten date label in the film reads MAR. 18, 1971.

Second close-up of the handwritten March 18, 1971 label, reinforcing the footage date with home-movie film softness. — The date label remains visible in close-up, confirming March 18, 1971.

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