Washington DC USA-1970: Zoom Out Of Large White Building To Focus On Tree

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Year1970
Decade1970s
LocationWashington, District Of Columbia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Zoom Out Of Large White Building To Focus On Tree — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1970, this vintage home movie captures a quiet scene in Washington DC. The clip begins with a wide view of a large white institutional building, likely a government or museum structure, with a grassy field in the foreground. A rugby-style goalpost stands near the building. The camera slowly zooms out and pans, shifting focus to a prominent bare tree in the foreground, its branches silhouetted against an overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic 8mm film grain, slight color fading, and a nostalgic, observational quality typical of personal home movies from the era.

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: 123052486

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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: 1970 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: Washington, District Of Columbia, 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

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 1970 Washington, DC home-movie exteriors of a large civic or institutional building and surrounding grounds.
Period detail: The scene may show a late-1960s or 1970-era public building landscape, with broad lawns, bare trees, parked cars, and a simple goalpost visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, drifting from the building toward a foreground tree rather than staging a formal architectural view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large white building, grassy lawn, bare trees, a goalpost, parked cars, walkway areas, and a small distant person.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, handheld framing, and dark contact-sheet borders that preserve the home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, quiet transition, or memory beat for Washington, DC civic spaces in the early 1970s.
Historical context: The footage records an everyday public landscape in Washington, DC without identifying signage or a confirmed landmark visible in the frames.
Research note: Human review should consider possible likeness for the distant person and separately assess copyright, location, and any building-related property concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1970 8mm Washington DC building exterior, home movie civic grounds, bare tree lawn, and vintage public institution cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1970 Washington, DC exteriors, then broader home-movie scenes of civic grounds and winter trees.

Still Frames From This Clip

1970 Washington, DC home-movie frame showing a large white institutional building, lawn, goalpost, bare trees, and a distant person. — A wide exterior view frames the large white building across open grass.

Washington, DC exterior frame with a bare foreground tree, large white building, parked cars, and open lawn visible through soft 8mm focus. — The camera shifts toward a foreground tree against the building facade.

1970 Washington, DC frame centered on a leafless tree, with a low white institutional building, lawn, and parked cars in the background. — The bare tree becomes the main subject as the building recedes behind it.

Home-movie frame from Washington, DC showing a bare tree silhouetted over a lawn with a white building, parked cars, and a small sign behind it. — The final view holds on the tree with the civic-looking building in the distance.

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