Chicago Illinois-1968: Outdoor Video Showing Several Small Fountains In A Pool

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

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Outdoor Video Showing Several Small Fountains In A Pool — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a quiet urban scene in Chicago. The footage shows a large classical-style building with ornate details and multiple windows, viewed from across a paved plaza. In the foreground, a series of small, spouting fountains create a rhythmic pattern of water jets. A bare tree stands near the building, suggesting early spring. The clip transitions to a modernist sculpture with abstract, curved forms silhouetted against a high-rise building at dusk. The film exhibits characteristic 8mm grain, color shifts, and a slightly soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 125593966

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: Useful for 1960s Chicago urban atmosphere, civic plaza cutaways, and documentary edits needing real 8mm views of fountains, architecture, and public sculpture.
Period detail: The clip shows mid-century city surfaces, formal masonry architecture, modern high-rise windows, and an abstract public sculpture that may reflect 1960s downtown redevelopment tastes.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective, pausing on civic details rather than staged action and preserving how a traveler noticed fountains, buildings, and sculpture.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a paved plaza, small fountain jets, a classical-style facade, bare tree branches, benches, high-rise windows, an abstract sculpture, and a few distant pedestrians.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, gate borders, and handheld framing that support its home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, urban transition, sculpture cutaway, or memory beat within a Chicago travel or city-history sequence.
Historical context: The views place public art, fountains, and downtown architecture within everyday urban sightseeing, without confirming a specific landmark beyond the supplied Chicago location.
Research note: People appear only small and distant, but likeness review may still be needed, and copyright, public-art, and property considerations should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1968 Chicago 8mm home movie, downtown fountain plaza, public sculpture, urban architecture, and vintage city travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1968 Chicago material, then broader 1960s urban fountain, plaza, architecture, or public-art footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Chicago home-movie frame showing low fountain jets across a plaza in front of a large classical-style building. — Fountain jets rise in a plaza before a formal city building.

1968 Chicago view across a paved plaza with fountain jets, a bare tree, benches, and a large civic-looking facade. — The camera holds on a fountain plaza and the building beyond it.

1968 Chicago home-movie frame of an abstract outdoor sculpture seen against a modern glass-and-window building. — A curved abstract sculpture stands before a modern building.

1968 Chicago frame showing a silhouetted abstract sculpture, high-rise windows, railings, and a small distant pedestrian. — The shot ends on public sculpture against a high-rise backdrop.

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