New Orleans USA-1952: Weathered Multi-Storey Building With Sealed Windows

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationNew Orleans, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1952 New Orleans

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Weathered Multi-Storey Building With Sealed Windows — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a weathered multi-storey building with sealed windows and peeling white paint. The camera pans across the aged facade, revealing brickwork beneath the deteriorating surface and a dark picket fence in the foreground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and soft focus, evoking a sense of forgotten urban decay and mid-century Americana. This archival clip offers authentic period texture for historical documentaries, nostalgic storytelling, or retro-themed projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123336351

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 1863 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1952
Reel-level location note: new orleans
Date: 1952 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: New Orleans, 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: Fills requests for 1950s American urban decay or deteriorating historic architecture suitable for documentary, period drama, or archival texture use.
Period detail: White-painted brick facade with arched window surrounds and dark picket fence may show mid-century New Orleans; sealed windows and peeling plaster suggest prolonged vacancy.
Home-movie behavior: Deliberate pan across a building facade suggests a visitor documenting a striking or memorable structure, consistent with traveler shooting rather than candid domestic footage.
What appears in frame: Peeling white-painted plaster, exposed warm brick, arched ornamental window surrounds, sealed flat-panel windows, dark picket fence, utility wires, blue-shifted color cast, and 8mm grain.
Film character: Strong 8mm grain, a blue-lavender color shift in the opening frames, and soft focus give the footage an impressionistic, time-worn quality characteristic of 1950s amateur color stock.
Edit role: Works as an establishing or cutaway insert for mid-century American urban decline, or as a transitional beat in documentaries about Southern architecture or abandonment.
Historical context: The ornate arched window moldings and multi-storey brick construction are consistent with 19th-century commercial or residential architecture still standing in New Orleans in the early 1950s.
Research note: No people or identifying signage are visible; this is an exterior architectural shot, but commercial clearance for a specific identifiable building should be assessed before editorial use.
Research search match: Researchers may search: 1950s New Orleans building exterior, vintage urban decay 8mm, mid-century Southern architecture, deteriorating historic facade, sealed windows archival.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same 'New Orleans to Pacific trip' reel, then with 1950s American urban exterior shots, then with deteriorating Southern historic architecture themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Upper facade of a deteriorating white-painted brick building with a dark picket fence, filmed in New Orleans circa 1952 on 8mm film. — Weathered facade and picket fence, New Orleans, 1952.

Deteriorating white-painted brick facade with arched ornamental moldings around sealed windows, New Orleans circa 1952, 8mm film. — Peeling plaster reveals brick beneath ornamental window surrounds.

Lower facade of a deteriorating building with sealed flat-panel windows and ornate arched surrounds, New Orleans circa 1952, 8mm film. — Sealed windows and ornamental arched surrounds at street level.

Deteriorating New Orleans building facade with sealed arched windows and a possible window-mounted AC unit, circa 1952, 8mm color film. — Sealed arched windows and peeling facade detail, New Orleans, 1952.

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