Washington DC-1975: A Coloured Video Of A River With Buildings And A Bridge

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Year1975
Decade1970s
LocationWashington, District Of Columbia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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A Coloured Video Of A River With Buildings And A Bridge — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1975, this vintage home movie captures a panoramic view of a wide river with large institutional buildings along the far shore. The footage, framed by the classic black borders of Super 8 film, shows a slow pan across the waterway, revealing a prominent bridge and tree-lined banks under a hazy, purplish sky. The color palette is distinctly faded and saturated with a purple cast, characteristic of aged film stock. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of Washington DC's riverside architecture and urban landscape from the mid-1970s.

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: 123206260

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: 1975 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: 1970s Washington, DC home-movie footage for requests needing a brief riverside panorama, institutional waterfront buildings, and a bridge cutaway.
Period detail: The frames show mid-1970s color 8mm footage with distant civic-scale buildings, tree-lined banks, and a low bridge across a broad waterway.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, slowly panning across the water from a sightseeing vantage point rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wide river, far-shore buildings, trees, a bridge, hazy sky, black film borders, and soft 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The footage has visible grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, black gate borders, and a strong purple color shift from aged film stock.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short establishing insert, travel-memory transition, or waterfront cutaway in a Washington, DC sequence.
Historical context: The view documents a 1970s tourist or home-movie look at Washington waterfront architecture and public landscape from across the water.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but landmark, copyright, and property-status questions may still need separate review.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1975 Washington DC river panorama, 8mm waterfront buildings, vintage bridge view, and 1970s DC home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1975 Washington, DC views, then broader 1970s river, bridge, and landmark panoramas.

Still Frames From This Clip

1975 Washington, DC 8mm frame showing a wide waterway with distant institutional buildings, trees, and purple-shifted sky. — Distant waterfront buildings seen across a broad river in Washington, DC.

1975 Washington, DC 8mm view across the water toward large buildings and trees, with faded color and soft focus. — The pan continues across the river toward buildings and a tree-lined shore.

1975 Washington, DC 8mm frame showing the river, a low bridge, trees, and distant civic buildings during the pan. — A bridge and far bank come into view across the water.

1975 Washington, DC 8mm frame with a low bridge, tree-lined bank, and distant structures across a purple-shifted river view. — The final frame holds on the bridge and distant waterfront landscape.

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