Dallas Texas USA-1956: A View Of An Old Building With Scaffolding

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

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A View Of An Old Building With Scaffolding — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Dallas, Texas, 1956, showing a weathered building with a red tile roof and dark windows. The camera pans across the structure, revealing construction scaffolding and a metal framework on the roof, suggesting ongoing work. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight blurriness typical of mid-century home movies. The scene captures a quiet moment of urban development in a residential area, with a nostalgic, documentary feel.

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: 120784748

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: Useful for 1950s Dallas urban or residential exterior requests needing brief 8mm home-movie cutaways of an older building under repair or construction work.
Period detail: The red tile roof, plain stucco-like facade, dark window openings, and simple scaffolding may show mid-century building maintenance rather than a named landmark or identifiable event.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational quality of a passerby or traveler filming a static exterior, with the camera lingering on architectural details rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a weathered wall, red clay roof tiles, dark windows and door openings, rooftop materials, scaffolding poles, and a metal framework near the building edge.
Film character: The footage carries a 1950s 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, color shift toward purple-blue shadows, and uneven exposure across the pan.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short establishing insert, transitional cutaway, or memory beat for postwar urban change, repair work, or older residential architecture.
Historical context: The scene visually suggests an older built environment in Dallas during 1956, with maintenance or construction activity implied by the visible scaffolding and roof materials.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible in the sampled frames, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related concerns should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Relevant search phrases include 1956 Dallas 8mm building exterior, old stucco building with red tile roof, mid-century scaffolding footage, and vintage home movie urban repair cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other Dallas 1956 exteriors, and then with broader 1950s urban development or building maintenance footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 Dallas 8mm frame showing a weathered building exterior with a red tile roof, dark windows, and rooftop materials in soft, color-shifted film. — Old building facade with red tile roof.

1956 Dallas home-movie frame of an older exterior wall, red roof tiles, and multiple dark window openings with no people visible. — Dark windows below a red tile roof.

1956 Dallas 8mm frame showing an older building with red roof tiles, dark windows, and scaffolding or support poles along the exterior. — Scaffolding beside the building exterior.

1956 Dallas home-movie frame with scaffolding, a metal framework, dark window openings, and the weathered exterior of an older building. — Metal framework against the old facade.

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