France-1949: Notre-Dame Cathedral Gothic Architecture and Rose Window

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Year1949
Decade1940s
LocationFrance
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1949 France

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Notre-Dame Cathedral Gothic Architecture and Rose Window — Clip Details

FRANCE-1949: This vintage 8mm home movie captures the iconic Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, showcasing its Gothic architecture with detailed flying buttresses and the famous rose window. The footage, shot from a slightly elevated angle, reveals the cathedral's stone facade and surrounding greenery, with a glimpse of a small building and street activity in the foreground. The film exhibits natural grain and color fading typical of mid-century home movies, offering a nostalgic glimpse of Paris in the late 1940s.

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: 125782722

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip.

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 1003 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1949
Reel-level location note: Ireland,France
Date: 1949 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: France 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: Supports 1940s Paris establishing or cutaway needs for documentaries, museum media, education programs, and editorial sequences about Notre-Dame or postwar travel footage.
Period detail: The frames show Notre-Dame's Gothic stonework, flying buttresses, rose window tracery, nearby trees, and a small foreground structure that may reflect mid-century street-level surroundings.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot landmark perspective, held from across or above the street with the camera lingering on architectural details rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include Notre-Dame's rose window, buttresses, stone walls, roofline, spires, trees, a small foreground building, and glimpses of street activity.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, light grain, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and minor handheld drift consistent with a scanned mid-century home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short Paris landmark insert, architectural cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into a sequence about Notre-Dame.
Historical context: The footage places Notre-Dame within an urban Paris setting, emphasizing the cathedral's exterior architecture and surrounding greenery without showing identifiable pedestrians.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any property or location-use considerations for their project.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1949 Paris 8mm Notre-Dame exterior, vintage France cathedral footage, Gothic architecture home movie, and rose window travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Paris or France footage from 1949, then with broader European cathedral and postwar travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 France home-movie frame showing Notre-Dame Cathedral's rose window, Gothic buttresses, roofline, and trees from a slightly distant viewpoint. — Notre-Dame's rose window and upper exterior appear behind trees in a soft, slightly faded 8mm frame.

1949 France frame of Notre-Dame Cathedral's side wall and flying buttresses, with trees and a small foreground building below. — The camera holds on Notre-Dame's buttressed side elevation with greenery and a low structure in front.

1949 France home-movie frame centered on Notre-Dame's Gothic buttresses and stonework, with trees, a foreground building, and street activity. — A closer angle emphasizes Notre-Dame's repeated buttresses and vertical stone supports above the street edge.

1949 France frame showing Notre-Dame's buttressed exterior with trees and street-level vehicles partly visible in the foreground. — Notre-Dame's exterior fills the frame while trees, a small building, and vehicles mark the foreground street scene.

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