San Francisco-1959: Red Brick Church With Gothic Tower

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 San Francisco

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Red Brick Church With Gothic Tower — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a striking red brick church with Gothic-style arched windows and a prominent tower. The footage, likely from a San Francisco neighborhood, shows the building from multiple angles, including a view through a white monument or cross in the foreground. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, grainy texture, and slightly faded colors, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American atmosphere. The final frame offers a brief glimpse of a waterway and trees, suggesting a scenic location. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content about mid-20th century American religious architecture.

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: 125291054

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 1084 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: philip 15 mos,santa anita,vegas,arizona,new mexico
Reel-level year note: 1958-1959
Reel-level location note: california
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: San Francisco, California, 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: 1959 San Francisco 8mm footage suited to archival requests for mid-century church exteriors, neighborhood architecture, religious buildings, or reflective urban cutaways.
Period detail: The red brick Gothic-style church, pale trim, arched windows, and soft color 8mm look may show a mid-century view of an older religious building in San Francisco.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, moving past the church and nearby monument with brief handheld reframing rather than staged architectural coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red brick church tower, arched windows, white trim, a pale monument or cross, rooflines, trees, a waterway, and a distant light-colored house.
Film character: The footage carries grain, soft focus, slight blur, faded color, and handheld movement consistent with original 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an exterior insert, religious architecture cutaway, location transition, or short memory beat within a 1950s San Francisco sequence.
Historical context: The images document an exterior view of a Christian church structure and nearby waterfront scenery without showing congregation activity or identifiable people.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but exterior architecture and religious context may still require project-specific copyright, property, and location review.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1959 San Francisco 8mm church exterior, red brick Gothic church tower, vintage home movie religious architecture, and waterfront cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1959 San Francisco exteriors, and finally with church, waterfront, or mid-century urban architecture clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 San Francisco 8mm frame showing a red brick church tower with Gothic-style arched windows and pale decorative trim. — Red brick church tower and arched windows in a soft 8mm exterior view.

1959 San Francisco 8mm frame with a pale monument or cross in the foreground and red brick church windows behind it. — Pale monument or cross passing in front of the church exterior.

1959 San Francisco 8mm frame showing the red brick church facade, pointed trim, narrow arched windows, and a round window. — Closer handheld view of the church facade and decorative window details.

Brief 1959 San Francisco 8mm view across a waterway toward trees and a distant light-colored house. — Short waterfront cutaway with trees and a distant house across the water.

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