Troy New York USA-1973: Very Tall Apartment Building Standing On A Cloudy Day With

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationTroy, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 Troy New York

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Very Tall Apartment Building Standing On A Cloudy Day With — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Troy, New York, 1973, showing a very tall, multi-story apartment building with numerous balconies and windows. The building stands prominently against a cloudy sky, viewed through a window frame with visible film grain and slight color fading typical of Super 8 film. Palm trees and a utility pole appear at the bottom of the frame, suggesting a suburban or urban setting. The shot is static, capturing the architectural details of the mid-century structure in a nostalgic, archival style.

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: 122686002

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 1012 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: swimming
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1973 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: Troy, New York, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Suits urban history and housing documentary productions needing a 1970s American residential tower exterior as a period-establishing architectural insert for northeastern US city narratives.
Period detail: The repeating balcony grid and flat-roofed rectangular tower form are consistent with urban renewal-era residential construction common to American cities in the late 1960s–1970s.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from street level or a nearby window, this reads as an amateur's spontaneous record of a notable local landmark — the unstaged civic observation typical of home-movie makers.
What appears in frame: A tall rectangular residential tower dominates each frame, with repeating rows of windows and balconies, a pale overcast sky, a utility pole at left, tree foliage in the lower corners, film dust spots, and edge vignetting.
Film character: Pronounced grain, a blue-grey color shift from stock aging, edge vignetting, and scattered dust and scratch artifacts give the footage a dense analog archival texture throughout.
Edit role: Functions as a period-establishing architectural cutaway or static insert in urban history, housing policy, or city-change documentaries set in the American Northeast during the 1970s.
Historical context: Residential high-rise towers of this form were common outcomes of urban renewal programs in American cities through the 1960s–70s; this may document local housing development in the Troy, NY area.
Research note: No identifiable people are visible; the building exterior appears filmed from a public vantage. Architectural copyright may apply to identifiable structures — confirm with a rights clearance specialist before editorial use.
Research search match: 1970s American apartment tower, urban renewal housing block, northeastern US residential building, 8mm archival architecture footage, New York State city building 1973.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from this reel or the same 1973 Troy shooting session, then with New York State urban footage from the same decade, then with broader American housing and urban renewal sequences.

Still Frames From This Clip

8mm home movie, Troy, New York, 1973 — tall residential tower block against an overcast sky, with a utility pole and tree foliage at the lower left. — Residential tower block against an overcast sky, with utility pole and tree foliage; Troy, New York, 1973.

8mm home movie, Troy, New York, 1973 — the same residential tower from a slightly shifted angle, with tree foliage at lower right and film dust artifacts. — Same residential tower, slightly reframed, with tree foliage at lower right; Troy, New York, 1973.

8mm home movie, Troy, New York, 1973 — residential tower seen from a low angle with a utility pole and tree foliage at the base, dense film grain throughout. — Residential tower from a low angle with utility pole and tree foliage; Troy, New York, 1973.

8mm home movie, Troy, New York, 1973 — residential tower upper floors against a pale sky, with tree foliage at lower right and scattered film dust artifacts. — Upper floors of residential tower against a pale sky, tree foliage at lower right; Troy, New York, 1973.

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