Worlds Fair Seattle-1974: Japanese Garden With Pond And Purple Flowers

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Year1974
Decade1970s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Japanese Garden With Pond And Purple Flowers — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1974, this clip captures a serene Japanese-style garden at the World's Fair in Seattle. Lush green trees and rocks surround a tranquil pond reflecting a large red flag, with a bamboo railing in the foreground. The scene transitions to a vibrant display of purple flowers carpeting a rocky landscape. The footage exhibits natural film grain and warm color tones characteristic of vintage home movies from the era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125632747

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1974 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Not recorded Unidentified (Insufficient evidence for a responsible conclusion.)
Location evidence: No location is recorded for this clip.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s 8mm garden footage suited for documentary inserts, World's Fair travel sequences, or archive montages needing visitor-shot landscaped grounds.
Period detail: The clip may show a World's Fair garden area in 1974, with bamboo-style railing, ornamental rocks, pond reflections, and red flags as visible period details.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the landscaped pond and flowers from a visitor viewpoint, valuing the quiet, unstaged look of a home-movie travel record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pond, red flags, bamboo railing, evergreen trees, ornamental rocks, purple flowers, shrubs, and a glassy building facade.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, warm color, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that support its home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm cutaway, scenic transition, memory beat, or establishing insert within a 1970s fair or garden sequence.
Historical context: The footage reflects a visitor's attention to designed nature, water, planting, and ornamental display rather than crowds or official fair activity.
Research note: No people, faces, or logos are visible, but copyright, site permissions, and any property or event context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1974 8mm World's Fair Seattle garden, Japanese-style pond home movie, and vintage fairgrounds flower footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with confirmed Seattle 1974 fair material, then with broader 1970s garden or travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 8mm frame of a landscaped garden pond with red flags, evergreen trees, rocks, reflections, and bamboo railing. — Garden pond with red flags reflected in the water and ornamental planting around the rocks.

Visitor-shot 8mm view of a garden pond with red flags, rocks, trees, and a modern building facade in the background. — Red flags and trees rise above a landscaped pond bordered by rocks and railings.

1970s home-movie frame showing a landscaped pond, red flags, evergreen trees, rocks, bamboo railing, and water reflections. — A wider view of the ornamental pond with red flags, trees, rocks, and reflected color on the water.

Close garden view of purple flowers carpeting the ground among large rocks, shrubs, and low ornamental plantings. — Purple flowers fill the foreground around boulders and landscaped garden plants.

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