Japan-1953: Shot Of Entrance To Building Marked By Letters That Read Post Office

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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Shot Of Entrance To Building Marked By Letters That Read... — Clip Details

JAPAN-1953: A vintage 8mm film clip captures the exterior of a small Japanese post office. The footage shows a weathered wooden building with white-framed windows and a dark door. A bright red mailbox with Japanese characters and the word 'POST' is mounted on the wall. The camera tilts upward to reveal a yellow 'POST OFFICE' sign above the entrance, with Japanese text visible below. The scene is bathed in a distinct purple hue, characteristic of aged film, with noticeable grain and soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century atmosphere.

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: 125230513

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1033 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1953
Reel-level location note: japan
Date: 1953 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: Japan 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: A 1950s Japan 8mm cutaway for productions needing a small-town post office exterior, postal service setting, or everyday public-building detail.
Period detail: The wooden siding, simple painted lettering, white-framed windows, and wall-mounted red post box may show mid-century local post office design in Japan.
Home-movie behavior: The short handheld view reads as a visitor or traveler noticing a practical public doorway rather than a staged institutional scene.
What appears in frame: The clip shows a dark doorway, white-framed windows, horizontal wooden boards, a red wall mailbox, a yellow POST OFFICE sign, and roofline trim.
Film character: Soft focus, purple color shift, visible grain, and slight handheld movement give the scan a distinctly aged 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing insert, postal-service cutaway, travel-memory beat, or quiet transition into correspondence or town-life material.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for everyday communication infrastructure without identifying the specific town, branch, or building history.
Research note: No people are visible, but the post office lettering and mailbox markings should be reviewed for copyright, trademark, and location/property context.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1950s Japan post office exterior, vintage 8mm postal building, Japanese mailbox, and mid-century street-front public office.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with other Japan 1953 exteriors, and then with postal, public building, signage, or everyday town-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Japan 8mm frame showing a small wooden post office facade with a dark doorway, white window frame, red mailbox, and partial sign. — The camera frames the entrance area, with a red mailbox beside a white-framed window and part of the post office sign below.

1953 Japan 8mm frame showing the upper facade of a small post office with door, window, red mailbox, and dark wooden siding. — The red mailbox and white window stand out against the dark wooden post office wall as the handheld view shifts upward.

1953 Japan 8mm frame centered on a yellow POST OFFICE sign across dark wooden siding, with roof trim and a lower window visible. — The frame emphasizes the painted POST OFFICE sign mounted on the wooden facade above roof trim.

1953 Japan 8mm frame showing the POST OFFICE sign, red mailbox, door, window, and faint Japanese lettering on the wooden facade. — The final view includes the English sign, red mailbox, doorway, and faint Japanese lettering on the post office exterior.

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