Sacramento California USA-1969: Amazing Fountain Sculpture With Moving Parts In

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

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Amazing Fountain Sculpture With Moving Parts In — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a striking fountain sculpture in Sacramento, California. The clip features a large, dark silhouette of a figure with water cascading from its form, creating a dynamic interplay of light and motion. The sculpture's moving parts are highlighted as water sprays and splashes in the foreground, with a grassy park and distant cars visible in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and natural lens flares, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American atmosphere. This archival clip offers a unique glimpse into public art and everyday life in late 1960s California.

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: 123048566

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s Sacramento public-art, urban park, or fountain cutaways in documentaries, museum films, and period city-life edits.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1960s civic landscaping, with a sculptural fountain, clipped lawn, road edge, parked or passing cars, and simple pole lighting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds close on the fountain from a visitor's viewpoint, favoring water movement and silhouette over formal documentation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark fountain sculpture, falling water, blue-tiled basin, lawn, roadside cars, pole lights, sky, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm image has dense contrast, soft focus, visible grain, color shift, gate edges, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, public-art cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a Sacramento or 1960s California sequence.
Historical context: The scene places public sculpture and recreational green space within an everyday California streetside setting without identifying the artwork or site by name.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or interiors are visible, but sculpture copyright and location/property permissions may still require separate review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 8mm Sacramento fountain sculpture, California public art home movie, vintage park fountain, and 1960s urban water feature.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then Sacramento 1969 material, then related public art, parks, fountains, and California street scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Sacramento home-movie frame of a silhouetted fountain sculpture with cascading water, grass, road edge, and pole light in the background. — Silhouetted fountain sculpture pours water in a park-like Sacramento setting.

1969 Sacramento frame showing the fountain sculpture in strong silhouette as water spills across the basin, with grass and distant cars beyond. — Water spills from the silhouetted public fountain with cars faintly beyond the lawn.

Close 8mm view of the Sacramento fountain, with water sheeting down a dark sculptural surface into the blue-white basin below. — Close fountain detail emphasizes moving water and reflective basin color.

Close 1969 Sacramento fountain frame with water cascading over a dark curved sculptural element against blue basin tiles and bright spray. — Water cascades over a dark curved part of the fountain sculpture.

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