Wisconsin USA-1954: Tiered Fountain Pouring Water in Purple Light

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Year1954
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Tiered Fountain Pouring Water in Purple Light — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wisconsin, USA, in 1954, capturing a tiered fountain with water cascading down its dark, reflective tiers. The scene is bathed in a distinct purple-blue color cast, likely from film stock or lighting, with trees silhouetted against a twilight sky. The camera slowly tilts down, revealing a dark sculptural base, possibly a statue, beneath the flowing water. The grainy, slightly blurry quality and warm color shifts are characteristic of mid-century amateur film, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 120766757

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: 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 1212 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1953-1954
Reel-level location note: wisconsin
Date: 1954 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: 1950s Wisconsin 8mm home-movie footage useful for documentary or museum requests needing an atmospheric garden fountain, estate grounds, or decorative water-feature cutaway.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century outdoor leisure or landscaped grounds, with the visible era clues coming mainly from the 8mm color rendering, handheld framing, and metadata-supported 1954 date.
Home-movie behavior: The camera studies the fountain from a visitor or family-film perspective, tilting down from the upper tiers to the sculptural base without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include cascading water, dark tiered fountain bowls, a reflective sculptural base, silhouetted trees, blue-purple sky, lawn, and a pale balustrade or railing.
Film character: The footage has pronounced grain, soft focus, deep shadows, and a strong purple-blue color cast that read as physical-film texture from a mid-century amateur 8mm scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or memory beat for outdoor travel, garden, fountain, estate, or nostalgic summer-sequence coverage.
Historical context: As home-movie material, the clip offers a brief visual record of a decorative outdoor fountain in Wisconsin rather than evidence of a specific public landmark or named site.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property or artwork rights should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches include 1954 Wisconsin 8mm fountain, 1950s home movie garden fountain, purple color cast Super 8 water feature, and vintage tiered fountain footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then other 1954 Wisconsin outdoor scenes, and then broader 1950s home-movie footage of fountains, gardens, parks, or landscaped grounds.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing the top of a tiered outdoor fountain with water spilling over dark bowls beneath silhouetted trees and a blue-purple sky. — Water cascades over the upper fountain tiers.

1954 Wisconsin 8mm frame with a closer view of the fountain's upper bowl, cascading water, dark surrounding trees, and strong purple-blue film color cast. — A closer view of water spilling from the fountain bowl.

1954 Wisconsin 8mm frame tilted down to show falling fountain water, a dark reflective sculptural base, lawn, trees, and a pale balustrade or railing. — The camera tilt reveals the fountain base and railing.

1954 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing the lower fountain, falling water, dark reflective sculptural form, tree line, lawn, and pale balustrade in soft purple-blue color. — Falling water frames the fountain's dark sculptural base.

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