Washington DC USA-1960: Bridge Spanning River with Passing Traffic

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Year1960
Decade1960s
LocationWashington, DC, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 Washington DC

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Bridge Spanning River with Passing Traffic — Clip Details

Aerial vintage 8mm footage from Washington DC USA in 1960, showing a bridge spanning a wide river with cars in motion. The grainy, blue-tinted film captures a classic mid-century urban commute, with low-angle views of the roadway and surrounding landscape. The footage exhibits natural film grain and slight motion blur, characteristic of home movie Super 8 recordings from the era. The scene conveys a nostalgic, documentary-style glimpse of daily life and infrastructure in the nation's capital during the 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122651054

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 1213 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1960
Reel-level location note: washington dc,hawaii,new orleans
Date: 1960 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: Washington, DC, United States 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: Useful for requests needing 1960s Washington, DC aerial home-movie views of river bridges, road traffic, and urban infrastructure for documentary or editorial context.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century road traffic on a broad bridge over water, with soft color, distant buildings, and sparse roadside landscaping supporting the 1960 metadata context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot aerial perspective, recording a quick look down at a bridge and traffic rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wide river, a long bridge, moving cars, road approaches, bare trees, shoreline paths, distant buildings, and blue-tinted haze.
Film character: The 8mm footage shows visible grain, soft focus, mild exposure fluctuation, motion blur, and blue color shift that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, transit cutaway, infrastructure transition, or memory beat for Washington, DC travel and commuting.
Historical context: The imagery places everyday automobile movement within a wide river crossing and surrounding urban landscape, offering visual context without identifying a specific bridge.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related use should still be reviewed by the buyer.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1960 Washington DC 8mm aerial bridge footage, vintage river crossing traffic, home movie urban commute, and mid-century city infrastructure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Washington, DC footage from 1960, then broader 1960s bridge, river, traffic, and aerial city-view material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 Washington, DC home-movie frame with a hazy aerial view of buildings, roads, and a bridge approach near a river. — Hazy aerial view of a river crossing approach with nearby buildings and roads.

1960 Washington, DC aerial frame showing a long bridge over water with small cars moving along the roadway. — Long bridge over a wide river with scattered cars visible from above.

Blue-tinted 8mm frame of a Washington, DC bridge span over water, with traffic and a road approach visible below. — Bridge span and road approach seen from an elevated, moving viewpoint.

1960 Washington, DC home-movie frame showing a distant bridge over a broad river with light traffic and soft haze. — A distant bridge crossing is visible through haze, with cars moving over the water.

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