Cincinnatti Ohio-1949: Huge Fountain Spraying Water in Green Park on a Beautiful Day

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Year1949
Decade1940s
LocationCincinnatti, Ohio, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

Huge Fountain Spraying Water in Green Park on a... — Clip Details

CINCINNATTI OHIO-1949: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a large fountain spraying water high into the air in a lush green park. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows the fountain's powerful jet against a backdrop of trees and red flowers under a bright blue sky. The camera moves slightly, offering different angles of the water spray and surrounding greenery, with visible film grain and color shifts characteristic of 1940s home movies. This archival clip evokes a sense of mid-century Americana and nostalgic public park life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127600964

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

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: 1949 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: Cincinnatti, Ohio, 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.

Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s public-park atmosphere, mid-century Cincinnati cutaways, or documentary sequences needing noncommercial home-movie views of a fountain in landscaped civic space.
Period detail: The 1949 8mm color footage shows a formal fountain, clipped greenery, red flower beds, mature trees, and bright daylight consistent with a maintained mid-century public park setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera lingers from a visitor's viewpoint, shifting slightly between angles rather than staging action, giving the clip the observational feel of a family outing or sightseeing record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tall water jet, fountain basin edges, green lawn or plantings, red flowers, leafy trees, blue sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight handheld drift, gate edges, exposure variation, and mild color shifts that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief establishing cutaway, memory beat, transition, or visual punctuation for mid-century urban park life and summertime civic scenery.
Historical context: The footage documents a landscaped public fountain as seen by an amateur camera, offering visual context for leisure, civic beautification, and outdoor spaces in late-1940s Cincinnati.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in these frames, but copyright status and any site-specific property or landmark permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1949 Cincinnati 8mm fountain footage, vintage public park water spray, mid-century Ohio home movie, and archival civic landscape cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Cincinnati or 1949 Ohio material, then broader vintage fountain, park, garden, or public-space footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 Cincinnati 8mm frame of a fountain jet in a green park, with red flower beds and trees behind the water spray. — A fountain sprays high in a landscaped park with trees and red flowers in the background.

A 1949 Cincinnati park fountain sprays upward beside clipped greenery, red flowers, and trees in a soft 8mm home-movie frame. — The fountain basin and water jet fill the frame, with park plantings and trees beyond.

The fountain spray dominates this 1949 Cincinnati park view, with the basin, red flowers, greenery, and trees softened by 8mm grain. — A closer angle shows the fountain spray rising from the basin against landscaped greenery.

A 1949 Cincinnati 8mm view frames the upper fountain plume against blue sky, with surrounding park trees and dark film borders. — The camera tilts toward the fountain plume rising against sky and treetops.

Visually Similar Clips