California USA-1969: Street Water Fountain Kinetic Sculptures Water City

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 California

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Street Water Fountain Kinetic Sculptures Water City — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage footage captures a modern city street in California featuring kinetic water fountains shaped like dandelions. The sculptures spray water in a circular pattern in front of a tall building with a dark glass facade, where the sign 'Coldwell, Banker & Co.' is visible. In the background, a domed capitol building rises against a clear blue sky. The clip exhibits the characteristic grain and color shift of Super 8 home movie footage, offering a nostalgic look at mid-century urban design and public art.

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: 123048336

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: Yes
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 1343 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #9,easter,grandma granpa visit,spring rainbow,opening day,little league,baseball
Reel-level year note: 1969
Reel-level location note: clarendon hills, illinois, woodland hills, california
Date: 1969 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: California, 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: Useful for requests needing late-1960s California urban streetscape footage, especially public art, downtown architecture, banking districts, or city-planning cutaways.
Period detail: The dark glass office facade, visible Coldwell, Banker & Co. signage, and spherical spray fountains support a late-1960s urban design reading.
Home-movie behavior: The clip appears to be filmed from a visitor or passerby perspective, lingering on a civic fountain installation without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include kinetic water fountains, a dark office tower, bank signage, trees, a street or plaza edge, and a domed capitol-like building in the background.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, blue color shift, gate edges, handheld framing, and contact-print density variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, architectural cutaway, or transition beat for California city life and public art in the 1960s.
Historical context: The footage documents a modern downtown streetscape where commercial office architecture and ornamental water sculpture share the same public-facing view.
Research note: Coldwell, Banker & Co. signage is visible, so trademark and location identification should be reviewed separately from footage copyright status.
Research search match: Searches such as 1969 California 8mm city fountain, mid-century public art footage, downtown banking building home movie, and kinetic water sculpture may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other California 1969 city views, then broader 1960s public art or modern urban design footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 California 8mm frame showing a dark office facade and partial Coldwell, Banker & Co. signage behind a misting fountain. — A fountain spray crosses the lower frame in front of a dark glass office building with partial bank signage.

1969 California street view with dandelion-like fountain sprays, a dark office tower, and a domed building in the background. — Spherical fountain sprays fill the foreground while a domed building appears beyond the office tower.

1969 California 8mm frame of multiple kinetic fountain forms spraying water before a dark commercial building. — Multiple circular water sprays stand in front of a dark commercial facade with partial signage.

1969 California city frame showing three dandelion-like water fountains and Coldwell, Banker & Co. signage on a dark facade. — Three fountain sprays dominate the foreground against the bank building facade and nearby trees.

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