Iran-1972: City Square with Fountain and Flowerbeds

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City Square with Fountain and Flowerbeds — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a vibrant city square in Iran, centered around a large, active fountain. Lush flowerbeds with red, yellow, and pink blooms line the walkways, contrasting with the green grass and bare trees of early spring. Pedestrians stroll through the plaza, framed by modern high-rise buildings and a prominent domed structure in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering a nostalgic glimpse of urban life and public space design from the early 1970s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
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Duration: 5s
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Clip ID: 124331303

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People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1431 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: longwood gardnes,xmas
Reel-level year note: 1972-1977
Reel-level location note: iran,philadelphia
Date: 1972 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: Iran 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing 1972 Iran urban public-space footage for documentary inserts, education programs, or period city-life context.
Period detail: The modern high-rise buildings, formal flowerbeds, road edge, and fountain plaza may show early-1970s urban design in Iran.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, observing a landscaped square from across the street as pedestrians move through the plaza.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include bright flowerbeds, green lawns, bare-branched trees, paved walks, a large active fountain, pedestrians, roads, and tall buildings.
Film character: The 8mm image has saturated color, soft focus, visible grain, slight gate shadow, and handheld framing consistent with a short home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a city-establishing cutaway, travel-memory beat, transition, or brief insert for urban Iran in the 1970s.
Historical context: The frames show a maintained public square where ornamental planting, fountains, pedestrians, and modern buildings share the same urban view.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright status is separate from subject clearance.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1972 Iran 8mm city square, vintage fountain plaza, Iranian urban flower gardens, and Super 8 public space footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1972 Iran city views, then broader vintage fountain, plaza, and urban garden footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Iran home-movie frame showing dense red flowerbeds, fountain spray, trees, and partial city buildings beyond the plaza. — Red flowers fill the foreground near fountain spray in a landscaped urban square.
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1972 Iran frame of a city square with an active fountain, formal flowerbeds, pedestrians, trees, and high-rise buildings behind it. — A fountain operates in the center of the square with pedestrians crossing nearby.
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1972 Iran home-movie view across a street toward a fountain, spring flowerbeds, trees, and modern buildings around a public square. — The camera looks across the road toward the fountain and planted beds.
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Wide 1972 Iran frame showing a landscaped square with grass, colorful planting, trees, road, buildings, and part of the fountain at right. — A wider view shows the planted square, roadside grass, and fountain edge.
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