Flushing Meadows New York-1964: Water Is Sprayed To Heights As Tall As Buildings

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

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Water Is Sprayed To Heights As Tall As Buildings — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964 at Flushing Meadows, New York, this archival footage captures a massive water fountain display at the World's Fair. Water erupts in powerful jets, spraying to heights rivaling nearby buildings, creating a misty, atmospheric effect. The scene features a large, modernist structure with a distinctive tower, viewed through a hazy, overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and film scratches, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century Americana and futuristic design.

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: 124938454

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: 1960s World's Fair fountain footage for documentary or museum sequences needing a brief visitor-view cutaway of modern public spectacle in Flushing Meadows.
Period detail: The modernist fountain basin, railings, towered structure, and 1964 Flushing Meadows metadata place the view in a mid-century World's Fair setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, holding on the fountain display from behind foreground railings as water and mist dominate the view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include high fountain jets, drifting spray, a curved basin edge, metal railings, a towered building, overcast sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, muted color, vertical scratches, gate edges, and slight exposure haze that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, atmospheric transition, or memory beat for World's Fair, New York, public design, or mid-century leisure sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually situates public fountain spectacle within the 1964 Flushing Meadows World's Fair environment without identifying a specific pavilion beyond the visible structures.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any property or landmark-use concerns separately.
Research search match: Useful matches include 1964 Flushing Meadows fountain footage, New York World's Fair water display, 8mm World's Fair home movie, and mid-century public fountain cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel World's Fair shots, then other 1964 Flushing Meadows material, then broader fountain, fairground, or mid-century public-space footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Flushing Meadows fountain display with water spray, a towered structure, overcast sky, and dark 8mm frame edges. — Water jets rise near a modernist structure at the Flushing Meadows World's Fair site.

High water spray at Flushing Meadows in 1964, seen across railings with a towered fairground structure in the background. — A dense burst of fountain spray partially obscures the fairground structure behind it.

Misty fountain display at the 1964 Flushing Meadows World's Fair site, with curved basin edge and foreground railings visible. — Fountain mist spreads across the basin, softening the view of nearby structures.

Wide spray plume at Flushing Meadows in 1964, with railings, low structures, haze, and visible 8mm film borders. — A final view of the fountain plume shows water rising behind low fairground structures.

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