Flushing Meadows New York-1939: Fairgoers Walk Past a White Colonnaded Pavilion with Eagles and Flag

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationFlushing Meadows, New York, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 · Flushing Meadows, New York, United States

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What is in this clip

world's fair
1930s architecture
American patriotism
tourism
crowds
pre-war America
exhibition design

Shot type: wide
Camera: pan · handheld
Setting: outdoor · exhibition grounds with monumental pavilion and open plaza
Time and weather: midday · summer · clear and sunny
Lighting: bright direct sunlight
People: 25 · Adult fairgoers in 1930s dress, including men in straw boaters and jackets and women in light dresses, mostly seen from behind or at a distance; one man in white crosses the plaza near the end.
Landmarks: New York World's Fair
Objects: American flag · flagpole · gilded eagle reliefs · standing statues · colonnade · square towers · entrance doorways · small white sign · trees
Colors: cream white · violet grey · amber · dark brown
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: High
Location confidence: High

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Visitors in straw hats stand before a white tower with a statue, a gilded eagle and an American flag.
The camera pans left along the tall colonnade as the crowd moves across the plaza.
A second tower with its own statue and eagle comes into view at left.
A man in white walks across the foreground as trees appear at the right edge.

Fairgoers Walk Past a White Colonnaded Pavilion with... — Clip Details

New York World's Fair, Flushing Meadows, Queens, 1939 home movie footage of a large white pavilion with two square towers. Each tower carries a standing statue above a gilded eagle relief, and a long row of tall columns joins them. An American flag flies from a pole beside one tower while fairgoers in straw hats, light dresses and jackets cross the plaza in front. The 8mm camera is handheld and pans slowly left across the facade in one continuous colour shot under a clear sky.

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: 800000068

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: 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: 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: Flushing Meadows, 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 genuine colour home-movie footage of the 1939 New York World's Fair, especially its patriotic white pavilions and the crowds that visited them.
Period detail: Straw boaters, women's light 1930s dresses, the stripped classical facade with eagles and statues, and the colour of the 8mm reversal film all point to the late 1930s.
Home-movie behavior: A visitor's own camera sweeps across the pavilion from the crowd's level, with hats and shoulders of other fairgoers in the foreground rather than a cleared, official view.
What appears in frame: Two white towers each bearing a standing statue and a gilded eagle, a long run of tall columns, an American flag on a pole, dark entrances, a crowd in straw hats and a few trees at the right edge.
Film character: Sunlit 8mm colour with fine grain, a violet-shifted sky, small dust specks and a few emulsion cracks near the top, giving a clear sense of original projected film.
Edit role: Works as an establishing shot or patriotic cutaway within a world's fair sequence, and its slow pan makes an easy transition between pavilion shots.
Historical context: The eagles, flag and allegorical statues show the national symbolism that stood alongside foreign pavilions at the 1939 fair, the only season the Soviet pavilion took part.
Research note: Copyright in the film is separate from the likeness of the visitors, who are small and mostly seen from behind, and from any rights in the pavilion's sculpture and design; review use against your own clearance needs.
Research search match: 1939 World's Fair colour home movie, white pavilion with eagles 8mm, fairgoers in straw hats 1930s, New York World's Fair archival footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's Independence Hall replica, British Pavilion, Soviet worker statue and Perisphere helicline clips, then with other 1939 Flushing Meadows footage, then with 1930s patriotic architecture.

Still Frames From This Clip

White pavilion tower with statue, eagle relief and American flag above fairgoers in straw hats, New York World's Fair, 1939 — Fairgoers gather before a white pavilion tower with a statue, gilded eagle and US flag, New York World's Fair, 1939.
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Visitors stroll before a white colonnaded pavilion with an eagle over its entrance and a US flag, 1939 New York World's Fair — The pan begins along the pavilion's tall columns as visitors cross the plaza, 1939.
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Colonnade between twin statue towers with eagles and an American flag at the New York World's Fair, 1939, people below — Twin towers with statues and eagles frame the long colonnade, Flushing Meadows, 1939.
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End of the pan across a white eagle pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair, a man in white crossing the plaza — A man in white crosses the plaza as the pan reaches the pavilion's left tower, New York World's Fair, 1939.
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