Catskill New York USA-1959: Building Window Bars Storefront Western Style With Assay Sign

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationCatskill, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 Catskill New York

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Building Window Bars Storefront Western Style With Assay... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a series of rustic wooden buildings in the Catskill Mountains. The footage begins with a blue-tinted view of a weathered structure with barred windows, then pans to reveal a small wooden building with faded red lettering. The sequence concludes with a classic Western-style storefront labeled 'ASSAY' under a porch roof, evoking a nostalgic Old West atmosphere. The grainy, color-shifted quality of the Super 8 film enhances its authentic mid-century charm, perfect for historical documentaries, period pieces, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123617163

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1101 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: north pole,game farm,amusement park, reel 2
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1959 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: Catskill, 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

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 1950s Catskill-area home-movie requests needing rustic tourist-site or Western-themed storefront cutaways.
Period detail: Visible clues include painted wooden siding, barred windows, faded lettering, porch posts, and an ASSAY sign that may show a staged Old West-style attraction.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, scanning building fronts as a traveler records architectural details rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Frames show blue-painted plank siding, barred sash windows, faded red wall lettering, a boarded opening, porch roof, posts, and an ASSAY storefront sign.
Film character: The 8mm scan has blue color shift, soft focus, visible grain, frame jitter, and uneven exposure that mark it as mid-century home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, transitional cutaway, or memory beat for roadside attractions, themed buildings, or Catskill travel.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a mid-century tourist or display setting using frontier-style architecture without proving the site's original function.
Research note: No people are visible, but signage and exterior structures should be reviewed for trademark, copyright, location, and property-release questions.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 8mm Catskill New York footage, Western-style storefront, ASSAY sign, rustic wooden buildings, and barred windows.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1959 Catskill material, then broader Old West-themed storefront or roadside-attraction footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Catskill-area 8mm frame showing weathered blue plank siding, a barred window, and a dark film divider at the right edge. — Weathered blue siding and a barred window fill the opening frame.

1959 Catskill-area frame with a barred window on blue siding and a darker right-side opening or panel. — A barred window sits beside a darker panel on the painted wooden facade.

1959 Catskill-area 8mm frame showing blue siding, a barred window, faded red wall text, and a small boarded opening. — Faded lettering appears across the weathered facade near a barred window.

1959 Catskill-area frame showing a Western-style storefront with porch roof, posts, doorway, and an ASSAY sign. — The sequence ends on a porch-front storefront labeled ASSAY.

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