Paris France-1969: Virgin Mary Statue With Praying Hands and Halo

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationParis, France
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 in France

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Virgin Mary Statue With Praying Hands and Halo — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Paris, France, 1969, showing a white marble statue of the Virgin Mary with a golden crown and halo against a pale sky. The statue stands with hands clasped in prayer, framed by dark ornate metalwork and silhouetted trees. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight vignetting, capturing a nostalgic religious monument in a quiet outdoor setting. The camera slowly zooms in on the statue's face and crown, emphasizing its serene expression and symbolic details. This archival clip offers authentic 1960s religious imagery for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 120906129

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1969 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: Paris, France 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: 1969 Paris home-movie footage suited to documentary or museum requests for Catholic devotional imagery, religious statuary, or quiet European travel inserts from the late 1960s.
Period detail: The 8mm color image, soft exposure, and visible contact-frame edges support a late-1960s amateur travel-film context, while the statue, crown, halo, and surrounding metalwork are the visible period-relevant details.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, with a simple zoom toward a religious statue rather than a staged ceremony or formal architectural record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white Virgin Mary statue with clasped hands, a crown, circular halo, dark ornamental metalwork, silhouetted foliage, pale sky, and black film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has subdued color, fine 8mm grain, slight vignetting, soft contrast, and a steady amateur zoom that give it a scanned home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short devotional cutaway, travel-memory insert, reflective transition, or visual punctuation for religion, pilgrimage, Paris travel, or family archive sequences.
Historical context: The imagery reflects Catholic devotional symbolism encountered by a traveler in Paris, but the frames do not identify the exact church, shrine, or monument.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the religious subject and any site-specific property or artwork rights should still be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1969 Paris 8mm Virgin Mary statue, Super 8 Catholic statue halo crown, vintage France religious monument, and home movie Madonna prayer hands.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other material from the same reel, then with Paris 1969 travel footage, and then with broader Catholic statuary, church exterior, or religious-symbol cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Paris 8mm frame showing a white Virgin Mary statue with clasped hands, crown, and circular halo against a pale sky, partly framed by dark foliage and metalwork. — Virgin Mary statue framed by foliage and metalwork.

1969 Paris home-movie frame with the Virgin Mary statue more centered, showing the crown, halo, praying hands, and dark ornamental shapes at the sides. — Crowned statue with halo and praying hands.

Closer 1969 Paris 8mm view of the Virgin Mary statue, emphasizing the halo, crown, veiled head, and hands held in prayer beside dark decorative metalwork. — Closer view of the statue's halo and crown.

Tight 1969 Paris home-movie frame showing the Virgin Mary statue's face, crown, circular halo, and clasped hands against a plain pale sky. — Tight view of the crowned Virgin Mary statue.

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