Flushing Meadows New York-1964: Thatched Roofs And Cable Car At World's Fair

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationFlushing Meadows, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 New York

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Thatched Roofs And Cable Car At World's Fair — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures Flushing Meadows, New York, during the World's Fair. The footage shows thatched-roof pavilions, green landscaping, and visitors strolling through the grounds. A cable car glides across the sky above palm trees and modernist structures. The scene shifts to a traditional Chinese-style building with red pillars and an arched entrance, where people walk near a stone wall. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and a nostalgic, archival quality.

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: 124937996

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 1070 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: worlds fair
Reel-level year note: 1964-1965
Reel-level location note: new york city
Date: 1964 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: Flushing Meadows, New York, 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: Useful for 1960s World's Fair atmosphere, visitor-shot establishing material, or documentary cutaways of leisure architecture at Flushing Meadows in 1964.
Period detail: The thatched pavilion roofs, cable car, landscaped paths, and mid-century fairground structures support the stated 1964 World's Fair setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor perspective, observing fairground buildings and passing visitors from a distance rather than arranging a posed scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include thatched roofs, green fencing, benches, trees, landscaped shrubs, fair visitors, umbrellas, and a cable car overhead.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, handheld framing, gate edges, color shift, and fine grain that give the footage recognizable home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, transition, or memory beat for 1960s New York fairground or public-exhibition sequences.
Historical context: The view places modern attractions, themed structures, and landscaped public space within a mid-century exposition setting seen by ordinary visitors.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and property considerations should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1964 New York World's Fair 8mm footage, Flushing Meadows home movie, thatched pavilions, cable car, and fairground visitors.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1964 Flushing Meadows World's Fair clips, then broader 1960s exposition and public-park footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Flushing Meadows World's Fair view with thatched roofs, green fencing, trees, benches, and a few distant visitors. — Thatched pavilions and landscaping seen from a visitor's vantage point at the fairgrounds.

Flushing Meadows fairground scene with thatched pavilion roofs, shaded umbrellas, benches, fencing, trees, and visitors in the distance. — Visitors stand near benches and green fencing in front of thatched-roof fair structures.

1964 World's Fair pavilion view with thatched roofing, striped awnings, trees, shrubs, benches, and green foreground fencing. — A themed pavilion with thatched roofing and striped awnings appears behind landscaped plantings.

Flushing Meadows fairground view with a cable car overhead, thatched structures, umbrellas, trees, shrubs, green fencing, and benches. — A cable car passes above the fairground scene near thatched-roof structures and trees.

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