Flushing Meadows New York-1964: Tower Building In The Middle Of The Square

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

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Tower Building In The Middle Of The Square — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures the iconic spires of the New York State Pavilion at Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The camera pans across the distinctive concrete towers, highlighting their unique mid-century modern architecture against an overcast sky. The footage, with its characteristic film grain and slight color fading, offers a nostalgic glimpse of the 1964 World's Fair. The final frame reveals the statue atop the central spire, emphasizing the structure's symbolic presence. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling about 1960s America.

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: 124938296

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: 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: 1964 Flushing Meadows home-movie footage suited to requests for New York World's Fair-era landmark exteriors and brief architectural cutaways.
Period detail: The frames show mid-century fairground-style towers, spires, pale concrete surfaces, and an overcast sky consistent with the supplied 1964 Flushing Meadows metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, looking upward and panning across the towers without staged action or visible crowds.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tall spired towers, vertical facade panels, narrow arched openings, an overcast sky, a dark film-frame edge, and a statue-topped column.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate edges, and handheld framing that preserve the home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, architectural cutaway, or memory beat within a 1960s New York or World's Fair sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers a visitor-level glimpse of monumental public architecture at Flushing Meadows during the World's Fair period, without showing identifiable people.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright, location, and property-status questions for the final use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1964 Flushing Meadows 8mm footage, New York World's Fair towers, vintage home movie landmark, and spired fairground architecture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1964 Flushing Meadows clips, then broader 1960s landmark and World's Fair architecture footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Flushing Meadows home-movie frame showing pale spired towers with vertical panels and narrow openings. — Visitor-shot view of spired tower facades at Flushing Meadows.

1964 Flushing Meadows frame showing several spired towers rising above the frame with soft 8mm color and grain. — Several tower forms appear as the handheld camera pans across the structure.

Low-angle 1964 Flushing Meadows frame with three spired tower tops, soft focus, and visible film texture. — Low-angle home-movie framing emphasizes the height of the spired towers.

1964 Flushing Meadows frame showing a statue-topped column or spire rising above lower architectural towers. — Final frame isolates a statue-topped vertical element above the surrounding spires.

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