Washington DC-1960: Lafayette Square Marquis Gilbert De Lafayette Statue And White House

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Year1960
Decade1960s
LocationWashington, District Of Columbia, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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Lafayette Square Marquis Gilbert De Lafayette Statue And... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures a handheld view of Lafayette Square in Washington DC. The footage features a prominent statue of the Marquis de Lafayette atop a stone pedestal, with bare winter trees framing the scene. The camera pans across the monument and nearby buildings, including a glimpse of the White House in the distance. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, grain, and a cool blue-purple color cast, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American memory.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Handheld
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: 127668308

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: 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 1213 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1960
Reel-level location note: washington dc,hawaii,new orleans
Date: 1960 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: Washington, District Of Columbia, 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm Washington, DC landmark footage suited to documentary inserts about civic tourism, Lafayette Square, or mid-century visits to the White House area.
Period detail: Bare trees, stone monuments, soft color film, and visitor framing support a winter or cool-season 1960 home-movie view of Lafayette Square and nearby federal buildings.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, with handheld attention moving between the Lafayette monument, trees, and the White House vicinity rather than a staged civic view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the Lafayette statue, stone pedestal, bare trees, winter sky, White House facade, park railings, and surrounding Lafayette Square paths.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, slight exposure variation, and a cool blue-purple cast that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, monument cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into a Washington, DC civic-history sequence.
Historical context: The footage places a visitor's camera in Lafayette Square, visually linking Revolutionary War commemoration with the White House setting without showing a public event.
Research note: No people or brands are clearly visible, but landmark, copyright, and property-use questions should still be reviewed for the intended editorial or commercial context.
Research search match: Researchers may find this under 1960 8mm Washington DC, Lafayette Square statue, Marquis de Lafayette monument, White House exterior, or vintage capital tourism footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Washington footage, then other 1960 Lafayette Square or White House-area clips, then broader monument and civic-tourism home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 Washington, DC home-movie frame showing the Marquis de Lafayette statue rising from a stone pedestal near bare trees. — The camera frames the Lafayette statue above its pedestal in Lafayette Square.

Soft 8mm view of sculptural figures around the Lafayette monument, with leafless branches crossing the background. — A closer, blurred view catches figures on the Lafayette monument among winter branches.

1960 Washington, DC frame showing the White House in the distance through leafless trees from Lafayette Square. — The White House appears beyond the trees as the handheld camera pans across the square.

Handheld Lafayette Square view with a fence, bare trees, and a nearby building seen in cool-toned 8mm color. — A fence and winter trees fill the foreground as the camera finishes its sweep of the square.

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