United States-1971: Teen Girl in Purple Formal Gown and Young Man in Suit Beside Orange Car

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationUnited States
Duration4s
Price$149 USD
Collection1971 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

prom
formal dance
teenage couple
dressing up
family home movies
1970s fashion
suburban life
coming of age

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · pan
Setting: outdoor · Front lawn of a brick house with a hedge, a sidewalk and parked cars in a residential area
Time and weather: day · spring · clear
Lighting: natural daylight, soft and even
People: 2 · A teenage girl with long brown hair in a long purple formal gown with embroidered floral trim, holding white flowers, and a young man with light hair in a dark suit and white shirt.
Vehicles: orange car with open door · white car
Objects: formal gown · white flowers · corsage · suit · hedge · lamp post · house windows
Colors: purple · orange · green · tan
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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A girl in a purple formal gown holds white flowers beside an orange car.
She turns her head away from the camera.
The camera pans across the car toward a young man.
The young man in a dark suit stands by the open car door.

Teen Girl in Purple Formal Gown and Young Man in Suit... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1971, home movie footage shows a teenage girl in a long purple formal gown with embroidered floral trim, holding white flowers, on a lawn beside an orange car in front of a brick house. The handheld camera then pans to a young man in a dark suit standing by the car's open door. The single silent Super 8 shot runs upside down as transferred, with soft focus and warm, grainy colour.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
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: 4s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001113

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$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.

Minors are visible. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip, and a sensitive-use review is recommended.

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
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: 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 genuine early-1970s footage of American teenagers dressed for a prom or formal dance, suited to documentaries, fashion histories and nostalgia pieces.
Period detail: The long purple gown with embroidered floral panel, the dark suit, white flowers and the orange car may show early-1970s formal-dance style.
Home-movie behavior: A family member films the girl posing awkwardly by the car and then swings over to her date, an unstaged send-off moment rather than a formal portrait.
What appears in frame: A girl in a purple formal gown holding white flowers, an orange car with its door open, a white car at the edge, a young man in a dark suit, a brick house with white windows and a pale hedge on a green lawn.
Film character: Warm, saturated Super 8 colour with soft focus, visible grain, dust specks and a handheld pan, with the image running upside down as transferred.
Edit role: Works as a short memory beat or cutaway in a prom or growing-up sequence, after flipping the image right side up in the edit.
Historical context: Posing outside the family home in formal clothes beside a car before a dance was a common home-movie and snapshot ritual in the United States in this period.
Research note: The girl appears to be a minor and both people are unidentified, so likeness permissions are separate from film copyright; the private house and cars also call for caution, and clearance is not guaranteed.
Research search match: 1970s prom couple home movie, Super 8 teenagers formal dance, girl in purple gown beside car, vintage prom date front lawn.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's teenage girl in a paisley dress in the kitchen and the girl in a striped sweater cooking, then other circa 1971 American home footage, then formal-dance and dating clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Teenage girl in a purple formal gown with white flowers by an orange car, United States, circa 1971, Super 8 image upside down — A teenage girl in a long purple gown holds white flowers beside an orange car, circa 1971.
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Girl in an embroidered purple gown turns aside by an orange car as a suited man waits at the door, United States, circa 1971 — The girl turns her head while a man's hand rests by the car's open door.
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Handheld pan from a girl in a purple gown toward her suited date by an orange car on a lawn, United States, circa 1971 — The camera starts to swing from the girl toward the young man in a dark suit.
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Young man in a dark suit at the open door of an orange car, brick house and trees behind, United States, circa 1971, Super 8 — Her date, a young man in a dark suit, stands at the open door of the orange car.
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