India-1969: High-Rise Motel with Grid of Windows

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationIndia
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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

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High-Rise Motel with Grid of Windows — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage footage captures a high-rise motel in India with a distinctive brutalist architectural style. The camera tilts upward, revealing rows of uniform windows with purple-tinted curtains and concrete balconies. The building's grid-like facade and repeating window patterns emphasize its high-capacity design. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and subtle scratches, characteristic of Super 8 home movie footage. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century Indian hospitality architecture, ideal for documentaries, editorial content, 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: 125062864

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: 1969 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: India 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing 1960s India home-movie views of modern lodging, high-rise motel architecture, or urban travel infrastructure as documentary cutaway material.
Period detail: The concrete grid facade, repeated balcony bays, and curtained windows may show mid-century modern or brutalist hospitality design visible in India in 1969.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, looking up at the building facade as a traveler might record lodging or an urban landmark during a trip.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tall concrete facade, repeated vertical window bays, purple-tinted curtains, projecting balcony dividers, a lower balcony rail, and pale sky.
Film character: The 8mm footage carries soft focus, handheld framing, visible grain, slight color shift, and small scratches that give the building view physical archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief exterior insert, travel transition, architectural cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about lodging or urban development.
Historical context: The footage visually situates a high-capacity lodging building within a late-1960s travel context without identifying the specific property or city.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related use should still be reviewed for the intended project.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 India 8mm motel exterior, high-rise lodging facade, brutalist hotel windows, and vintage travel home-movie architecture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1969 India travel footage, then broader clips of hotels, motels, balconies, and modernist buildings.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 India 8mm frame showing an upward-angled view of a concrete motel facade with repeated window bays and purple-tinted curtains. — Upward view of the motel facade, emphasizing repeated windows and vertical concrete divisions.

1969 India 8mm frame of the high-rise motel facade, with uniform curtained windows and projecting concrete balcony dividers. — The camera holds on the upper facade, showing the building's repeated grid of windows.

1969 India 8mm frame showing the motel facade from below, with repeated window rows and a strong vertical concrete structure. — Low-angle exterior view of the motel, with the facade filling most of the frame.

1969 India 8mm frame showing lower motel rooms with curtained windows, concrete balcony divisions, a small balcony rail, and a planter edge. — Closer view of the lower facade, including curtained rooms, balcony details, and railings.

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