Dallas Texas USA-1956: Concrete Building Construction Tile

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

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Concrete Building Construction Tile — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Dallas, Texas, 1956, showing a residential construction site. The clip captures a concrete building under development with exposed stucco walls, dark window openings, and a tiled roof section. Scaffolding is visible on the left, and the structure appears to be a single-story apartment or house. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, with a blue sky in the background. This archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century suburban development in Texas.

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: 120784793

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 requests needing mid-1950s Dallas-area home-movie footage of residential or small-scale concrete construction for documentary, museum, education, or editorial use.
Period detail: The unfinished stucco-like walls, dark window openings, scaffold, and partial tile roofing may show mid-century residential building work consistent with the supplied 1956 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged observer's view, holding briefly on a construction facade rather than presenting a planned architectural survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rough concrete or stucco walls, open window voids, roofline sections, red tile roofing, scaffolding at the left edge, a low foreground barrier, and blue sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, color shift toward blue and purple, and slight handheld blur that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short construction cutaway, neighborhood development insert, architectural transition, or visual memory beat within a 1950s urban or residential sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually situates a small building project within the broader look of postwar residential construction without identifying the structure, owner, architect, or exact street.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location verification, and any property-related permissions should still be assessed separately by the user.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1956 Dallas 8mm construction footage, mid-century residential building home movie, concrete stucco building tile roof, and Texas suburban development archival footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Dallas or 1956 residential exteriors, and then broader mid-century construction, housing, or neighborhood development material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Dallas, Texas home-movie frame from the supplied 1956 clip showing an unfinished concrete or stucco building facade with dark window openings, scaffolding, and a low foreground barrier. — Unfinished facade with scaffolding and window openings.

Dallas, Texas 1956 construction view showing a concrete or stucco building under development, with open window voids, shallow roof sections, and a low barrier across the foreground. — Construction facade with open windows and roofline.

Frame from the 1956 Dallas home movie showing the side of an unfinished residential-scale structure with dark window openings, a low roof, and blue sky beyond. — Side wall and roof of the unfinished structure.

Dallas, Texas construction frame from the supplied 1956 footage showing an unfinished wall with several dark window openings, a low roofline, and red tile roofing visible at the upper right. — Unfinished wall with window openings and roof tiles.

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