Chicago Illinois-1968: Man Walking Past Fountain In City Square

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationChicago, Illinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Man Walking Past Fountain In City Square — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a man in a light-colored coat walking across a city square in Chicago. The scene features a distinctive water fountain with multiple jets illuminated in yellow against a purple-tinted backdrop, surrounded by modernist buildings and bare trees. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly soft focus, evoking a nostalgic mid-century urban atmosphere. The man moves from right to left, passing the fountain as the camera remains stationary, offering a candid glimpse of everyday life in a public space during the late 1960s.

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: 125593955

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

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 1018 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1968
Reel-level location note: chicago,macinaw island michigan
Date: 1968 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: Chicago, Illinois, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s Chicago city-square footage suited to documentary inserts, urban-history cutaways, or everyday public-life sequences.
Period detail: The light coat, modernist plaza setting, bare trees, and 8mm color stock may show late-1960s urban public-space design.
Home-movie behavior: A candid pedestrian crosses the plaza while the camera holds on the fountain from a home-movie observer's distance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a multi-jet fountain, paved plaza, one walking man, benches or low platforms, bare trees, and surrounding city buildings.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm grain, purple color shift, soft focus, gate edges, and uneven exposure that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief city insert, pedestrian cutaway, transition beat, or reflective urban memory shot.
Historical context: The scene records ordinary movement through a downtown public square, with the fountain and architecture framing everyday city life.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, location, and property issues should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1968 Chicago 8mm fountain plaza, vintage city square pedestrian, and 1960s urban home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1968 Chicago exterior scenes, then broader fountain, plaza, pedestrian, and mid-century city footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Chicago home-movie frame showing a man crossing a paved plaza beside a glowing multi-jet fountain and bare trees. — A pedestrian moves across the plaza in front of the illuminated fountain.

Chicago plaza scene with yellow-lit fountain jets, bare trees, and a man in a light coat moving out of frame. — The walking man approaches the edge of the frame as the fountain remains centered.

A purple-tinted 8mm view of the Chicago plaza fountain, with the walking man mostly leaving the shot. — The camera holds on the fountain as the pedestrian nearly exits the scene.

Brighter 8mm frame of the Chicago square showing fountain jets, bare trees, benches, and building facades. — A brighter exposure reveals more of the building facade behind the plaza fountain.

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