Sacramento California USA-1969: Three Dandelion-Shaped Fountains With Rainbow

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

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Three Dandelion-Shaped Fountains With Rainbow — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures three distinctive water fountains shaped like dandelions, their spiky metal structures spraying water in a misty arc. A vibrant rainbow forms in the spray, glowing against the cool blue and purple tones of the evening sky. The fountains stand in a public plaza, with modern buildings and streetlights visible in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color shifts, and a nostalgic, dreamlike quality, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, retro-themed projects, or historical content.

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: 123048354

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 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: Sacramento, 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: 1960s Sacramento home-movie footage suited to archival requests for public plaza fountains, urban water features, and atmospheric California city cutaways.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century public plaza design with modern building facades, streetlights, metal dandelion-like fountains, and saturated 8mm color typical of late-1960s amateur film.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on the fountains and rainbow in the spray rather than staging action or identifying people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include three spiky metal fountains, misting water, a rainbow in the spray, plaza paving, streetlights, trees, building columns, and deep blue evening sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, cool color shift, gate edges, and slight handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for Sacramento, 1960s urban atmosphere, public art, water, or rainbow imagery.
Historical context: The footage visually places decorative public fountains within a modern urban plaza, suggesting everyday civic space without confirming a specific landmark from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property or public-art rights should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1969 Sacramento 8mm fountains, California public plaza rainbow spray, vintage home movie water feature, and dandelion-shaped fountain footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Sacramento footage, then other 1969 Sacramento city views, then broader 1960s public fountains, plazas, rainbows, and water-feature scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Sacramento 8mm frame showing spiky metal fountains spraying mist in a public plaza as a rainbow appears across the water. — Three dandelion-like fountains throw mist across a plaza, with a rainbow visible in the spray.

1969 Sacramento home-movie frame with dandelion-like fountains, drifting spray, a rainbow, a tree, and modern building facades. — A rainbow cuts through the fountain spray in front of plaza buildings and a small tree.

1969 Sacramento 8mm frame showing three dandelion-shaped fountains spraying water beneath a blue sky, with streetlights and buildings behind them. — The fountains fill the lower plaza view, their metal spokes softened by water spray and film grain.

1969 Sacramento home-movie frame of three spiky public fountains spraying mist against a blue evening sky and modern plaza buildings. — Three dandelion-shaped fountains stand across the plaza as mist softens the background buildings.

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