Flushing Meadows New York-1964: View Of White Cathedral And Spire On A Cloudy Day

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

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View Of White Cathedral And Spire On A Cloudy Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a white Gothic-style cathedral at Flushing Meadows, New York, during the World's Fair. The camera slowly tilts upward, revealing intricate arched windows, a prominent rose window, and a tall spire topped with a cross against a cloudy sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, faded color tones, and film scratches, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of mid-century Americana. This clip offers authentic period footage of a historic religious structure from the 1964 World's Fair era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124938150

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
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: Useful for 1960s New York World's Fair-era edits needing a brief architectural cutaway of a white Gothic-style religious building in home-movie footage.
Period detail: The 8mm color frame and visitor viewpoint support a 1964 home-movie context, while the visible Gothic-style windows, rose window, spires, and cross identify a religious structure.
Home-movie behavior: The upward-looking, handheld framing suggests a visitor pausing to record the building facade and spires rather than a staged architectural survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale church facade, arched windows, circular rose window, pointed spires, cross finials, cloudy sky, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: Faded color, soft focus, visible grain, mild scratches, and uneven exposure give the clip a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, reflective transition, or architectural cutaway within a 1960s New York or World's Fair sequence.
Historical context: The clip places religious architecture within a public visitor-recorded setting connected by metadata to Flushing Meadows during the 1964 World's Fair period.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the religious subject and building identification may still require copyright, location, or property-rights review.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1964 8mm Flushing Meadows church spire, New York World's Fair religious building, or vintage home-movie Gothic cathedral exterior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1964 Flushing Meadows or World's Fair footage, then with 1960s religious architecture exteriors.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Flushing Meadows home-movie frame showing the upper facade of a white Gothic-style religious building with arched windows and a side spire. — Upper church facade with arched windows and a side spire under a cloudy sky.

1964 Flushing Meadows frame of a pale Gothic-style church roofline, circular rose window, arched windows, spire, and cross against cloud cover. — Roofline and spires of the religious building seen from below.

Visitor-shot 1964 Flushing Meadows frame showing a tall church spire, cross finial, circular window, and pale facade in soft 8mm color. — Tall spire and cross above the pale church facade.

1964 Flushing Meadows home-movie frame looking up at two pointed church spires, a cross, and a pale Gothic-style facade under gray sky. — Upward view of church spires and cross against the cloudy sky.

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