Washington DC-1961: Driving Past Statue in Park

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationWashington, DC, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 Washington DC

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Driving Past Statue in Park — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a drive through a park in Washington DC. The camera moves slowly past a prominent bronze statue of a historical figure atop a stone pedestal, surrounded by lush green trees and grass. Classic automobiles from the era pass by, including a white car in the foreground. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic vignette of an old Super 8 home movie, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American atmosphere.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127401683

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1961 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: Washington, DC, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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: Useful for 1960s Washington DC travel, street, or park-driving sequences needing home-movie views of monuments, lawns, trees, and mid-century automobiles.
Period detail: The clip shows period clues including 1960s color 8mm texture, classic cars, simple roadside lamps, and a bronze statue on a stone pedestal in a landscaped public area.
Home-movie behavior: The camera records from a moving car, giving an unstaged visitor-shot perspective as the vehicle passes a monument and nearby traffic.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a bronze statue, rough stone pedestal, grassy slope, mature trees, roadside lamps, classic cars, road edge, and distant pedestrians.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, mild color fading, gate shadows, and handheld motion from a moving vehicle.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, location transition, monument cutaway, or memory beat within a Washington DC or mid-century American sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects a public landscaped setting in Washington DC in 1961, with automobile travel and monument viewing framed through a home-movie lens.
Research note: Rights review should consider copyright status, possible likeness issues for distant pedestrians, and identification of the statue or public site before final use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1961 Washington DC 8mm driving footage, home movie monument statue, classic cars near park, and vintage DC travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1961 Washington DC street or monument footage, then with broader 1960s American travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Washington DC home-movie frame showing a statue on a stone pedestal, green lawn, trees, a roadside lamp, and part of a white car. — A moving car passes a statue on a stone pedestal in a landscaped public area.

1961 Washington DC frame with the statue still near the center, set above a grassy slope with trees, sky, and a lamppost visible. — The statue remains in view as the vehicle continues along the road.

1961 Washington DC home-movie view of a green slope, tree line, roadside lamp, and a small distant pedestrian as the car passes the monument area. — The camera moves past the monument toward the grassy slope and road edge.

1961 Washington DC frame showing a landscaped roadside with trees, a blue classic car, a darker vehicle, and distant pedestrians near the park edge. — Classic cars and distant pedestrians appear as the camera looks across the roadside park area.

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