Toronto Canada-1972: Hyatt Regency Hotel With Curved Glass Facade And Bare Trees

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationToronto, Canada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 Toronto Canada

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Hyatt Regency Hotel With Curved Glass Facade And Bare Trees — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Toronto, Canada, in 1972, showcasing the distinctive curved facade of the Hyatt Regency hotel. The building's expansive glass windows and prominent cylindrical tower stand against a clear blue sky, with bare tree branches in the foreground suggesting winter or early spring. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera movement, capturing a moment of mid-century modern architecture and urban life. This archival clip offers authentic retro footage ideal for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific visual storytelling.

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: 121321558

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only 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.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1363 · Super 8 · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1972
Reel-level location note: victoria canada
Date: 1972 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Toronto, Canada Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s Toronto exterior footage for productions needing a brief architectural insert, hotel cutaway, or urban travel establishing detail.
Period detail: The curved glass facade, cylindrical rooftop form, bare trees, and visible Hyatt Regency sign support an early-1970s urban hotel context from the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot street perspective, holding on the hotel exterior with slight handheld movement rather than a staged architectural survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a curved glass hotel facade, cylindrical rooftop feature, Hyatt Regency signage, bare tree branches, streetlights, blue sky, and dark film borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, blue color shift, visible grain, gate edges, and minor handheld drift that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, location transition, hotel exterior insert, or memory beat within a 1970s Toronto sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a street-level view of modern hotel architecture in Toronto, with winter or early-spring trees framing the glass exterior.
Research note: Brand signage is visible, so use should consider trademark and location identification issues separately from film copyright clearance.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1972 Toronto hotel exterior, 8mm Hyatt Regency footage, curved glass facade, and 1970s Canadian urban architecture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1972 Toronto exteriors, then 1970s hotel, travel, and modern architecture footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Toronto home-movie view of the Hyatt Regency curved glass facade, rooftop cylinder, blue sky, and streetlight. — Hyatt Regency exterior with curved glass facade and rooftop cylinder.

1972 Toronto view of the Hyatt Regency exterior, showing the curved glass wall, signage, streetlight, and clear sky. — Hotel signage and streetlight against the curved glass exterior.

1972 Toronto hotel exterior with bare branches in the foreground, curved glass facade, and partial Hyatt Regency sign. — Bare branches frame the hotel facade and partial signage.

1972 Toronto home-movie frame of bare trees in front of the Hyatt Regency curved facade and partial sign. — Bare foreground trees and partial hotel sign in front of the glass facade.

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