Flushing Meadows New York-1964: Street Scene With Crème À La Glace Shop

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

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Street Scene With Crème À La Glace Shop — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964 at Flushing Meadows, New York, this vintage footage captures a bustling street scene during the World's Fair. The clip features a stone building with arched entrances and a prominent blue sign reading 'Crème à la Glace,' with people walking and gathering in front. The warm, slightly faded colors and visible film grain evoke a nostalgic, mid-century atmosphere. Pedestrians in period clothing stroll past the commercial storefront, offering a candid glimpse of daily life at the fair. This archival home movie footage is ideal for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects.

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: 124938104

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: Yes
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 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: 1960s New York World's Fair street-scene footage for documentary inserts about visitor life, fairground commerce, and mid-century public spaces.
Period detail: The stone facade, arched entries, period clothing, and French-language ice cream signage support a 1964 fairground setting at Flushing Meadows.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, observing pedestrians gathering and passing storefronts without staged action or direct address to the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a stone commercial facade, arched doorways, blue Crème à la Glace sign, additional shop signs, windows, and crowds of fair visitors.
Film character: The 8mm image shows visible grain, soft focus, slight color fading, handheld framing, and contact-sheet jitter that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief cutaway, transition, or memory beat establishing fairground foot traffic and storefront activity.
Historical context: The scene shows public leisure and commercial activity in a fair environment, with visitors moving through a built pedestrian setting.
Research note: People and signage are visible, so likeness, trademark, and location-identification review may be needed in addition to copyright assessment.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1964 New York World's Fair street scene, Flushing Meadows visitors, 8mm fairground storefront, and Crème à la Glace sign.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel fair footage, then other 1964 Flushing Meadows clips, then broader 1960s street and visitor crowd material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Flushing Meadows fairground storefront with stone facade, arched openings, and pedestrians clustered near the entrance. — Visitors gather outside a stone-fronted fairground shop with arched entries.

Crème à la Glace signage on a stone fairground building at Flushing Meadows, with visitors moving across the foreground. — A blue Crème à la Glace sign is visible above pedestrians at the fairground storefront.

1964 fairground street view with the Crème à la Glace sign, adjacent storefront signage, arched doorway, and visitors in period dress. — The storefront row shows ice cream signage, arched entrances, and a crowd of fair visitors.

Flushing Meadows fairground facade with shop signage, arched doorway, multi-pane windows, and visitors gathered along the walkway. — Crowds pass beneath shop signs on a stone fairground building facade.

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