Svendborg Denmark-1981: Uniformed Street Band Plays Accordion, Guitar and Violin Outside a Shop

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Year1981
Decade1980s
LocationSvendborg, Denmark
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1981 · Svendborg, Denmark
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1981 · Svendborg & Denmark · Reel 5f93ac2a contains 14 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

street music
small-town life
market square
Danish culture
retail shopfronts
public entertainment
travel

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · pan · zoom
Setting: outdoor · Town market square in front of a two-storey ochre commercial building with a white sign band and shop windows
Time and weather: day · overcast
Lighting: Flat, diffuse daylight
People: 14 · A street band of men and women in dark coats and peaked caps playing accordion, brass horn, guitar and violin, joined by a heavyset man in glasses and bow tie and a woman in a white jacket; adult onlookers seen from behind in the foreground.
Vehicles: white saloon car
Landmarks: C.M. Kauffmann building
Objects: accordion · acoustic guitar · violin · brass horn · peaked caps · shop windows · red awning
Readable signs: C.M. KAUFFMANN
Colors: ochre · cream white · black · dark navy
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: High

Moments in the footage

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The C.M. Kauffmann shopfront and the band appear behind passers-by and a parked white car.
The accordionist, horn player and guitarist perform as onlookers' heads enter the foreground.
The camera pans right and closes in on the guitarist, the man in a bow tie and a violinist.
The framing settles on the right end of the band, with a red awning edging into view.

Uniformed Street Band Plays Accordion, Guitar and Violin... — Clip Details

Svendborg, Denmark, circa 1981 home movie footage of a small street band performing on Torvet, the town's market square, in front of the C.M. Kauffmann hardware store. Musicians in dark coats and peaked caps play accordion, a brass horn, guitar and violin while a man in a bow tie and a woman in a white jacket stand among them. The handheld camera pans right along the ochre shopfront and moves in closer, with the heads of onlookers passing through the foreground.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800002209

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1981 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: Svendborg, Denmark 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: Helps a production that needs early-1980s Danish street life, especially amateur musicians performing in a provincial market square.
Period detail: Dark wool coats, peaked caps, a white saloon car and the C.M. Kauffmann painted shop sign may show the town centre as it looked around 1981.
Home-movie behavior: A visitor films from behind the crowd, so passing heads and a casual handheld pan give the scene an unstaged bystander's view of the performance.
What appears in frame: The frame holds the large C.M. Kauffmann lettering, an accordionist in a cap, a woman with a guitar, a violinist, a man in a bow tie and the backs of watching heads.
Film character: Warm, slightly faded Super 8 colour with visible grain and soft focus gives the shot the textured feel of a period travel reel.
Edit role: Works as a lively cutaway or memory beat inside a market-day sequence, or as an establishing insert for Svendborg's square.
Historical context: C.M. Kauffmann ran a hardware business at Torvet 6 from 1888 until the late 1980s, and a weekly market still meets on the square.
Research note: The film's copyright is separate from the likeness of the identifiable performers and onlookers and from the visible shop name, so check those uses for each project.
Research search match: Researchers might search 'Svendborg street band 1980s', 'Danish accordion street musicians Super 8' or 'Torvet market square vintage film'.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's Bagergade street sign, market-day square and vegetable stall clips, then other Funen town footage from the early 1980s, then street-music scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Uniformed street band performs outside the C.M. Kauffmann store on Torvet, Svendborg, Denmark, circa 1981 — Musicians in caps play outside the C.M. Kauffmann shop as passers-by cross the square.
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Accordion, brass horn and guitar players entertain a crowd on Svendborg's market square, Denmark, circa 1981 — An accordionist and a guitarist lead the band as onlookers gather in front.
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Panning view of a Danish street band with guitar and violin outside an ochre shopfront in Svendborg, circa 1981 — The camera moves along the line of players, from guitar to violin.
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Close view of Danish street musicians in caps singing and playing outside a Svendborg shop, circa 1981 — Closer on the band's right end as a red awning edges into view.
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