Paris France-1939: Tourists Visiting A Grand Palace Garden

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationParis, France
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Paris France

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Tourists Visiting A Grand Palace Garden — Clip Details

PARIS FRANCE-1939: A vibrant 8mm home movie captures tourists exploring a grand palace garden, likely the Palace of Versailles. In the foreground, a large, ornate stone fountain with classical statues dominates the scene, while a long, elegant building with numerous windows and a central statue stands in the background. Visitors in period attire stroll across the terraced grounds, with a man in a military-style uniform and a woman in a dark suit briefly appearing in the lower left. The footage exhibits the characteristic grain, color saturation, and dark borders of vintage 8mm film, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century tourism.

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: 123117921

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1939 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: Useful for 1930s European tourism sequences, documentary cutaways, or archive passages needing visitor-shot footage of a formal French palace garden.
Period detail: The clothing, terrace crowds, stone fountain, and 8mm color stock may show late-1930s leisure travel at a major palace garden in France.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the visitor viewpoint, with tourists crossing the terrace and pausing near the fountain rather than performing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include terraced grounds, a long palace facade, stone fountain basins, classical statues, strolling visitors, dark film borders, and blue sky.
Film character: The clip carries warm 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, handheld framing, and gate edges that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, memory beat, or transition into prewar travel, tourism, or European landmark material.
Historical context: The scene shows formal garden tourism before wartime disruption, but the footage itself should be read as home-movie observation rather than event documentation.
Research note: People and faces are visible, and one figure appears in a military-style uniform; copyright, likeness, and landmark/property considerations should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Research matches include 1939 8mm Paris garden tourists, Versailles-like palace fountain home movie, prewar France travel footage, and 1930s European landmark visitors.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Paris or Versailles 1939 material, then broader 1930s European tourism and palace garden scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 home-movie view of visitors crossing a formal palace garden terrace above an ornate fountain, likely in the Paris area. — Visitors move across a palace garden terrace behind a stone fountain and classical sculpture.

A man in a military-style uniform and a woman in dark clothing stand near the fountain as visitors cross a formal French garden terrace. — Two foreground visitors appear below the terrace crowd and palace facade.

Tourists in period dress move through a broad palace garden terrace, with a stone fountain basin and statues in the foreground. — A wider view shows visitors scattered across the terrace above the fountain.

Final frame of the 1939 palace garden view, with tourists on the terrace, fountain sculpture below, and a long formal facade behind them. — Visitors continue across the palace garden terrace as the camera holds on the fountain and facade.

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