West Germany-1951: Ornate Fountain And Statue In Historic Town Square

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Year1951
Decade1950s
LocationGermany
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Ornate Fountain And Statue In Historic Town Square — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1951, this vintage footage captures a historic town square in West Germany. The sequence opens on a grand classical building flanked by traditional European architecture, then pans to reveal an ornate stone fountain with a sculpted column and statue at its center. Surrounding buildings feature shuttered windows, flower boxes, and signage including a 'HELVETIA' shop sign. The grainy black-and-white image, framed by the film's characteristic dark borders, evokes a nostalgic mid-century European atmosphere. This archival home movie offers authentic period detail for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
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: 123316854

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1951 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: Germany 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

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: Supports 1950s West Germany archive requests needing a brief town-square insert, architectural cutaway, or civic fountain detail for documentary and editorial sequences.
Period detail: Visible clues include shuttered multi-story buildings, flower boxes, shop signage, an ornate fountain column, and a statue that may show a historic European town center in the early postwar era.
Home-movie behavior: The framing feels like a visitor pausing to record a notable square, shifting attention from surrounding facades to the sculpted fountain and statue.
What appears in frame: The clip shows a classical facade, narrow old-town buildings, shuttered windows, flower boxes, an ornate fountain column, a statue, shopfronts, and a visible HELVETIA sign.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture gives the scene soft focus, visible grain, dark frame edges, slight exposure variation, and handheld movement typical of home-movie scanning.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, architectural transition, travel-memory cutaway, or civic landmark beat within a 1950s Europe sequence.
Historical context: The footage presents public-square architecture and storefront detail without showing crowds, offering visual context for everyday urban space rather than a documented event.
Research note: The HELVETIA sign should be reviewed as visible branding, while copyright, trademark, and any location-based property issues require separate clearance assessment.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1951 West Germany 8mm town square, vintage European fountain statue, black-and-white home movie city center, and postwar German street architecture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1951 Germany town footage, and then with broader European square, fountain, and architectural cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1951 West Germany home-movie frame showing a classical facade framed by older town buildings and dark 8mm film borders. — A classical facade appears beyond narrow historic buildings in the town square sequence.

1951 West Germany frame with an ornate fountain column, shuttered facades, flower boxes, shopfronts, and a visible HELVETIA sign. — The camera settles on the fountain column surrounded by old-town buildings and storefronts.

Black-and-white 8mm frame from 1951 West Germany showing the ornate fountain column before shuttered town-square buildings. — The fountain column fills the foreground with shop signage and shuttered facades behind it.

1951 West Germany home-movie frame showing a statue above an ornate fountain in a historic town square setting. — A statue rises above the fountain as surrounding buildings frame the square.

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