New York World'S Fair New York-1939: Tilt Up a Striped Pylon to a Silver Worker Statue Beside a Red Flag

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationNew York World's Fair, New York, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 New York

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What is in this clip

Soviet Union
world's fair
propaganda architecture
national symbols
interwar period
international exhibition
monumental sculpture

Shot type: medium
Camera: tilt · handheld
Setting: outdoor · World's fair grounds, foreign national pavilion
Time and weather: day · clear to hazy, windy
Lighting: bright daylight from the side
People: 0 · No living people visible; the only figure is the metal worker statue.
Landmarks: Soviet Pavilion, 1939 New York World's Fair
Objects: striped pylon · worker statue · hammer-and-sickle flag · flagpole · white ledge
Colors: violet blue · dark red · cream · silver · gold
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: High
Location confidence: High

Moments in the footage

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Base of the striped pylon with a red flag whipping at right.
The hammer and sickle on the flag becomes visible as the camera starts to tilt.
A white ledge and the statue's feet appear at the top of the shaft.
The worker statue's legs and outstretched arm fill the upper frame.
The tilt ends on the statue's torso with a flagpole at the right edge.

New York World'S Fair New York-1939: Tilt Up a Striped... — Clip Details

New York World's Fair, Flushing Meadows, Queens, 1939 home movie footage of the Soviet Pavilion. The shot opens on a dark red pylon with three white vertical stripes and cream side wings while a red flag bearing a gold hammer and sickle whips in the wind at right. A slow handheld tilt climbs the shaft to the silver worker statue on top, ending on its torso and outstretched arm against a hazy blue sky. The colour 8mm film has a violet cast, fine grain and light dust.

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: 800000067

Rights & Clearance

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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

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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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Answers requests for 1939 colour footage of the Soviet presence at the New York World's Fair, suited to documentaries on the fair, interwar diplomacy or Soviet propaganda.
Period detail: The striped Art Deco pylon, the heroic worker statue and the hammer-and-sickle flag are fixtures of the 1939-only Soviet Pavilion.
Home-movie behavior: A fairgoer's upward look from the ground, tilting slowly to take in the height of the pylon the way a visitor would have seen it.
What appears in frame: A dark red shaft with three white stripes, cream side wings, a white ledge, the silver worker statue's legs and torso, a red flag with gold hammer and sickle, and a flagpole at the edge.
Film character: Colour 8mm with a violet-shifted sky, saturated reds, fine grain, scattered dust and a stray hair, plus a gentle handheld sway during the tilt.
Edit role: Works as an establishing shot or reveal for a Soviet Pavilion sequence, or as a symbolic cutaway when narration turns to the USSR in 1939.
Historical context: The Soviet Union took part only in the fair's 1939 season; its pavilion was dismantled afterward and the site became the American Common.
Research note: No people appear; the worker statue is a sculptural work whose underlying rights are separate from the film copyright, and Soviet state symbols may carry sensitivities in some uses.
Research search match: 1939 World's Fair Soviet Pavilion, USSR worker statue color film, hammer and sickle flag 8mm home movie, Flushing Meadows 1939.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's British Pavilion entrance, white eagle pavilion and Perisphere helicline crowds, then other 1939 fair footage, then interwar Soviet imagery.

Still Frames From This Clip

Striped pylon of the Soviet Pavilion with a red flag blowing beside it, 1939 New York World's Fair, colour 8mm — The base of the Soviet Pavilion pylon, with a red flag whipping in the wind, New York World's Fair, 1939.
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Hammer-and-sickle flag beside the top of the Soviet Pavilion pylon as the camera tilts up, 1939 World's Fair in Queens — The camera tilts up the shaft toward the statue's base as a hammer-and-sickle flag waves, 1939.
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Legs and outstretched arm of the silver worker statue atop the Soviet Pavilion pylon, New York World's Fair, 1939 — The worker statue comes into view above the striped pylon, Soviet Pavilion, 1939.
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Soviet worker statue over its striped pylon with a hammer-and-sickle flag, 1939 New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows — The tilt ends on the Soviet Pavilion's worker statue beside a red hammer-and-sickle flag, 1939.
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