Dallas Texas USA-1956: Admiring Building With Red Tile Roof And Scaffolding

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Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationDallas, Texas, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1956 Dallas Texas

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Admiring Building With Red Tile Roof And Scaffolding — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Dallas, Texas, 1956, showing a low-angle view of a building with a red tile roof under a deep blue sky. The camera pans across the structure, revealing stacks of clay bricks and terracotta tiles on the ground, suggesting a construction or restoration site. Scaffolding is visible on a nearby tower, indicating ongoing work. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight blurriness, capturing a nostalgic slice of mid-century American life with a focus on architecture and building materials.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120784662

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1956 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: Dallas, Texas, 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: 1950s Dallas 8mm footage helps answer archival requests for mid-century exterior architecture, construction materials, or restoration-site cutaways in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The red clay roof tiles, masonry stacks, simple scaffolding, saturated color, and handheld 8mm framing may show a mid-century visitor's view of a building under work or repair.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on the roofline, tower, and materials rather than staging a formal architectural survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red tile roof, stucco or masonry walls, dark door openings, stacks of clay bricks or tiles, scaffolding on a tower, and a clear blue sky.
Film character: The footage has the texture of original 8mm color film, with soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld panning movement.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, architectural cutaway, construction-detail transition, or quiet memory beat within a 1950s location sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for mid-century home-movie attention to built environments and travel or local sightseeing, without confirming the building's identity or purpose.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but the building and worksite should still be reviewed for copyright, property, and location-identification considerations.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1956 Dallas 8mm building exterior, red tile roof scaffolding, mid-century construction materials, and home movie architecture cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other Dallas 1956 exteriors, and then with broader 1950s architecture, construction, roof tile, or restoration footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 Dallas 8mm frame showing a low building roofline with red clay tiles, dark wall openings, and a saturated blue sky. — Red tile roofline under blue sky.

1956 Dallas home-movie frame showing a red tile roof, dark doorways, and stacks of clay bricks or terracotta tiles near the building. — Stacks of clay materials beside the building.

1956 Dallas 8mm frame with the camera panning along a red tile roof, dark wall openings, and construction or restoration materials below. — Roofline and stacked materials during the pan.

1956 Dallas frame showing a red tile roof in the foreground and a tower-like structure with scaffolding against a clear blue sky. — Scaffolding visible above the tiled roof.

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