St. Louis Missouri-1971: Empty Seats and Artificial Turf Below a Busch Scoreboard

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationSt. Louis, Missouri, United States
Duration2s
Price$149 USD
Collection1971 · St. Louis, Missouri, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

sports venues
1970s ballparks
artificial turf
American sightseeing
urban architecture
empty spaces
home movie travel

Shot type: wide
Camera: handheld · static
Setting: outdoor · Open-air stadium interior with tiered seating, outfield scoreboard and artificial-turf field
Time and weather: day · unknown · Dry, overcast or bright daylight
Lighting: Flat daylight with a cool blue-violet cast and soft shadows under the upper deck
People: 0 · No people are visible.
Landmarks: Busch Memorial Stadium
Objects: scoreboard · stadium seats · upper deck · outfield wall · artificial turf · emblem panel · railings
Readable signs: BUSCH
Colors: red · green · blue-violet · navy
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: High

Moments in the footage

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The frame opens on the BUSCH scoreboard above empty red seats, slightly soft.
The camera drifts briefly and the scoreboard lettering blurs.
The shot steadies with BUSCH sharp over the empty stands and green turf.

St. Louis Missouri-1971: Empty Seats and Artificial Turf... — Clip Details

St. Louis, Missouri, circa 1971 home movie footage inside Busch Memorial Stadium, with no crowd and no players in sight. The camera looks across rows of empty red seats toward the outfield, where a dark scoreboard lettered BUSCH hangs beneath the upper deck beside an emblem panel. Bright green artificial turf fills the lower frame in front of a padded outfield wall. It is one handheld Super 8 shot that drifts briefly, then holds steady, with a cool blue colour cast.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
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: 2s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000952

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

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Source & Documentation

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Date: 1971 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: St. Louis, Missouri, 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: Answers requests for early-1970s views of the old Busch Memorial Stadium interior, useful to sports histories, St. Louis city documentaries and period travel montages.
Period detail: The green synthetic field dates the scene to Busch Memorial Stadium's AstroTurf years, and the plain lettered scoreboard and painted seating may show the venue as it looked around 1971.
Home-movie behavior: A visitor on a sightseeing day turned the camera on the empty ballpark and lingered on the scoreboard name, recording the venue itself rather than a game.
What appears in frame: Rows of empty red seats, a curving upper deck, a dark scoreboard lettered BUSCH, an emblem panel beside it, a padded outfield wall and a bright green artificial-turf field.
Film character: Super 8 colour with a cool blue-violet cast, gentle grain and a brief handheld drift that settles into a steady, readable frame.
Edit role: Works as a short establishing shot or cutaway that names the venue on screen before cutting to crowd, game or city footage.
Historical context: Busch Memorial Stadium switched from grass to AstroTurf in 1970 and kept it until 1995, so this field shows the synthetic-surface phase of the downtown ballpark.
Research note: No people appear; the BUSCH name and emblem are commercial trademarks and the stadium was a commercial venue, so trademark and property questions are separate from the film copyright held by the archive.
Research search match: Researchers may search 'Busch Memorial Stadium 1970s', 'empty ballpark Super 8', 'AstroTurf stadium home movie' or 'St. Louis 1971 footage'.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's Busch Memorial Stadium from above and downtown St. Louis street traffic, then other early-1970s St. Louis riverfront footage, then empty-ballpark material from other cities.

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BUSCH scoreboard over empty seats and AstroTurf at Busch Memorial Stadium, St. Louis, circa 1971 — The outfield scoreboard at Busch Memorial Stadium, St. Louis, circa 1971, seen over empty red seats.
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Handheld Super 8 view of the BUSCH scoreboard and empty grandstand in St. Louis, circa 1971 — A large block of empty seating slopes toward the turf beneath the BUSCH scoreboard, circa 1971.
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Empty outfield seats and padded wall below the BUSCH scoreboard, Busch Memorial Stadium, circa 1971 — The camera steadies on the BUSCH scoreboard and the empty outfield seats at Busch Memorial Stadium.
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Steady frame of the readable BUSCH scoreboard above AstroTurf at old Busch Stadium, St. Louis, circa 1971 — The BUSCH name reads clearly over the empty stands and artificial turf, St. Louis, circa 1971.
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