Niagra Falls New York-1964: Thomas Hart Benton Niagara Falls Mural Display

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationUnited States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Thomas Hart Benton Niagara Falls Mural Display — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from 1964 showing a colorful mural of Thomas Hart Benton's Niagara Falls artwork displayed on a screen. The painting depicts a dramatic frontier scene with Native Americans and early settlers in winter clothing navigating icy terrain near the falls, with snowshoes and a covered wagon visible. The mural features bold colors and dynamic composition, capturing a historical moment in American art. The film shows natural grain and slight flicker typical of home movie footage, with a wooden frame visible at the bottom of the screen.

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: 120817621

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

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1964 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

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 1960s archival productions needing an 8mm visitor-shot view of a displayed Thomas Hart Benton Niagara Falls mural or frontier-themed public art cutaway.
Period detail: The frames show a projected or displayed mural with painted figures in winter clothing, snowshoes, icy terrain, a waterfall, and a covered wagon, with the 1964 dating supported by clip metadata rather than visible signage.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the visitor-shot perspective, with the camera recording the mural presentation from a fixed audience viewpoint rather than documenting a staged art reproduction.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the colorful frontier mural, Native American and settler figures, snow-covered ground, snowshoes, a covered wagon, waterfall imagery, a wooden lower frame, and black film gate edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, slight flicker, soft focus, gate shadows, and uneven exposure that place the artwork within a physical home-movie record.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, art-history cutaway, Niagara Falls transition, or memory beat within a sequence about tourism, public art, or historical imagery.
Historical context: The mural appears to present a dramatized frontier encounter near Niagara Falls, so its use may require contextual framing around representation of Native American figures and settler-era imagery.
Research note: Rights review should consider the underlying artwork copyright separately from the film scan, while visible painted people do not create the same likeness concerns as identifiable live subjects.
Research search match: Search phrases might include 1964 8mm Niagara Falls mural display, Thomas Hart Benton Niagara artwork home movie, frontier mural snowshoes covered wagon, and Robert Moses power plant art display.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other Niagara Falls or New York 1964 material, and then with public art, museum display, or frontier-history themed archive clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 8mm frame of a displayed Niagara Falls mural attributed in metadata to Thomas Hart Benton, showing painted frontier figures, snow-covered ground, snowshoes, and waterfall scenery. — Frontier figures and snowshoes in the Niagara Falls mural display.

The mural display fills the frame, with painted Native American and settler figures in winter clothing beside icy terrain, waterfall imagery, and a partial covered wagon at the right. — Painted figures move across icy terrain in the mural.

A closer 8mm view of the displayed Niagara Falls mural shows painted figures crossing snow, snowshoes in the foreground, waterfall scenery, and a wooden frame along the bottom. — Snowshoes and figures dominate the mural foreground.

Final frame of the 1964 home-movie clip shows the displayed mural with painted figures in winter clothing, snow-covered terrain, waterfall imagery, and a covered wagon at the right. — Covered wagon and winter figures in the mural display.

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