New York World'S Fair New York-1939: Fairgoers in Summer Hats Stroll Past a Columned Pavilion with a Flag

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationNew York World's Fair, New York, United States
Duration4s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 · New York World's Fair, New York, United States

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What is in this clip

1939 world's fair
1930s fashion
public leisure
exposition architecture
pre-war America
summer outing
amateur travel film

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · pan
Setting: outdoor · World's fair grounds beside a cream stucco pavilion with Corinthian-style columns, a flagpole, a low stone-edged planter and leafy shade trees
Time and weather: midday · summer · sunny
Lighting: Bright direct sunlight with hard shadows under the portico and trees
People: 9 · Adult visitors in late-1930s dress: a woman in a white hat and pale blue dress, a man in a tan coat, a woman in a dark print dress with white gloves, a man in a straw boater, a man in a brown jacket, and smaller figures in the background
Landmarks: New York World's Fair
Objects: flag on tall pole · columned portico · arched wall niche · carved relief panel · stone planter · lamp post · straw boater · white gloves · handbag
Colors: cream · pale mauve · dark green · tan · sky blue
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: High
Location confidence: High

Moments in the footage

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A couple in a white hat and tan coat walk toward the columned portico as a woman in a dark dress passes on the left.
The visitors near the flagpole while other fairgoers move under the trees beyond.
The camera pans left, revealing an arched niche and a carved panel on the wall.
A man in a brown jacket steps into frame on the left as the group continues toward the building.

New York World'S Fair New York-1939: Fairgoers in Summer... — Clip Details

New York World's Fair, Flushing Meadows, Queens, 1939 home movie footage of visitors in summer hats and coats walking past a cream columned pavilion. A woman in a white hat and a man in a tan coat head toward the portico, while a woman in a dark print dress and white gloves passes on the left beside a man in a straw boater. As the handheld camera pans slightly left, an arched niche and a carved wall panel appear and a man in a brown jacket steps into frame. Shot on colour 8mm in bright sun with deep shadows.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Handheld
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 4s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000066

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People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1939 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: New York World's Fair, New York, 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: Answers requests for real 1939 colour footage of ordinary visitors at the New York World's Fair, useful for documentaries, fashion history and pre-war Americana.
Period detail: Straw boaters, brimmed women's hats, a print dress worn with white gloves, a long tan coat and the neoclassical exposition architecture all fit the late 1930s.
Home-movie behavior: The visitor-shot view follows fairgoers from behind as they wander toward a building, capturing unposed movement and a couple walking arm in arm rather than an official presentation.
What appears in frame: A cream portico with tall columns, a limp flag on a slender pole, a woman in a white hat beside a man in a tan coat, a woman in a dark print dress with white gloves, an arched niche, and leafy trees against blue sky.
Film character: Handheld colour 8mm with fine grain, dust specks, soft focus and a warm magenta-leaning cast gives the shot an authentic small-gauge texture of the period.
Edit role: Works as a short cutaway or transition between pavilion shots, or as a memory beat showing everyday visitors at the fair.
Historical context: The shot comes from a reel section dated to the 1939 season, when the Soviet pavilion still stood before its removal ahead of the 1940 season, and it shows the dress of middle-class visitors that summer.
Research note: Copyright in the film and the likeness of the people shown are separate questions; visitors are unnamed and mostly seen from behind, and the pavilion architecture is not individually identified here.
Research search match: 1939 New York World's Fair visitors, 1930s fashion colour home movie, 8mm Flushing Meadows footage, fairgoers walking past a pavilion.
Archive pairing path: Start with this reel's Independence Hall replica, Soviet worker statue, British Pavilion and helicline shots, then add other 1939 Flushing Meadows footage, and finally broader interwar clothing or crowd scenes.

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1939 New York World's Fair visitors, a couple arm in arm, walking toward a cream columned pavilion with a flag — A couple walk arm in arm toward a columned pavilion as other visitors pass, New York World's Fair, 1939.
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Fairgoers in late-1930s hats and coats near a flagpole outside a columned pavilion, Flushing Meadows, 1939 — Fairgoers in period hats and coats reach the flagpole outside a columned pavilion, 1939 New York World's Fair.
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Visitors in summer dress pass an arched niche and carved panel on a pavilion wall at the 1939 New York World's Fair — The camera pans left to an arched niche and carved panel as visitors walk on, New York World's Fair, 1939.
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Group of 1930s fairgoers, one in a brown jacket, walking toward a flagpole and columned pavilion, Queens, 1939 — A man in a brown jacket joins the visitors heading toward the pavilion, 1939 New York World's Fair.
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