New York City-1958: Soldiers In Grey Uniforms Stand In Formation Outside White Building

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationNew York City, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 New York City

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Soldiers In Grey Uniforms Stand In Formation Outside... — Clip Details

NEW YORK CITY-1958: A group of young men in grey military uniforms stands in formation on a grassy lawn in front of a white clapboard building. The footage, shot on 8mm film, captures a moment of discipline and order, with the soldiers standing at attention. The scene is viewed through a dark frame, suggesting a home movie perspective. The image quality is grainy and slightly faded, with the characteristic color palette of 1950s home movies. The clip transitions to a blurry shot of a person walking past a vintage car, followed by views of a suburban brick house, evoking a sense of mid-century American life and military service.

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: 124558554

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 1256 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #8
Reel-level year note: 1957-1958
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1958 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 York City, 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 New York-area archival requests needing home-movie views of uniformed military formation and mid-century residential surroundings.
Period detail: The grey uniforms, clapboard institutional building, vintage car, and low suburban brick house may show late-1950s American military and residential visual details.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an informal observer's view, shifting from a formation outside a building to quick handheld glimpses of a passerby and houses.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include uniformed men on grass, a white clapboard building, a blurred pedestrian, a parked car, lawns, and brick residential houses.
Film character: The 8mm footage carries soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, color fade, and handheld framing typical of scanned mid-century home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert for military service, neighborhood memory, or a transition from organized public life to domestic streetscape.
Historical context: The footage places uniformed young men and nearby residential architecture within an everyday mid-century setting without identifying the unit or location.
Research note: People and faces are visible, military uniforms appear, and residential exteriors appear, so likeness, property, and contextual review may still be needed.
Research search match: Searches such as 1958 8mm soldiers in formation, New York home movie military uniforms, and 1950s suburban houses may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 New York footage, then broader 1950s military service or suburban home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 home-movie frame of men in grey uniforms standing on a lawn outside a white clapboard building in New York City metadata context. — Uniformed men gather in formation outside a white building on a grassy lawn.

Handheld 1958 home-movie view of a blurred pedestrian passing a roadway with a parked car in the background. — A blurred pedestrian crosses the frame near a road and parked car.

Soft-focus 1958 home-movie frame showing a low brick residential house with windows, shrubs, and a front lawn. — A brick residential house appears in a soft handheld pass.

1958 home-movie frame of a brick residential exterior with broad corner windows and a sloping lawn. — A brick house with large windows fills the frame from a low angle.

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