Saint Louis Missouri-1966: White Building And Traffic Light On A Clear Day

Year1966
Decade1960s
LocationSaint Louis, Missouri, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1966 Saint Louis Missouri

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White Building And Traffic Light On A Clear Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1966, this vintage home movie captures a clear day in Saint Louis, Missouri. The footage features a large white building with a distinctive grid-like facade, a glowing red traffic light, and overhead utility wires framing the urban scene. The grainy, color-graded aesthetic reflects classic Super 8 film, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century city life. The sequence includes a brief glimpse of a grassy area with a wooden structure and scattered objects, adding to the nostalgic, candid feel of a personal home movie. Ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects exploring 1960s American urban environments.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125317297

Rights & Clearance

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 2121 · Super 8 · 3″ reel
Original reel label: pigs,clogs,cats,fast moving
Reel-level year note: 1966
Reel-level location note: saint louis
Date: 1966 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Saint Louis, Missouri, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports requests for 1960s Saint Louis urban B-roll, especially editorial inserts showing modernist buildings, traffic signals, and street-edge views from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The grid-front high-rise, overhead utility wires, red traffic light, and 8mm color stock support a mid-1960s city-street reading without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged visitor-shot quality, with quick handheld framing that notices both a grassy foreground area and nearby urban architecture.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a grassy area, a pale wooden structure or board, a large grid-like building, a lower masonry building, overhead wires, and a red traffic light.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and slight handheld drift give the short sequence the texture of scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief city cutaway, transition, exterior establishing detail, or memory beat within a 1960s Saint Louis sequence.
Historical context: The clip shows mid-century urban streetscape details in Saint Louis, emphasizing everyday infrastructure and architecture rather than a staged public event.
Research note: No people are visible, but the building, possible signage or brand details, and property/copyright questions should be reviewed separately for intended use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1966 Saint Louis 8mm street footage, 1960s urban building exterior, red traffic light, and vintage Missouri home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1966 Saint Louis exteriors, then broader 1960s American urban street and architecture footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1966 Saint Louis home-movie frame showing a grassy area, a pale wooden structure or board, scattered small objects, and dark trees beyond. — Grassy foreground area with a pale wooden structure and scattered objects.

1966 Saint Louis frame with a white grid-like high-rise behind a lower masonry building, seen through soft handheld 8mm framing. — Grid-front building and lower masonry structure in an urban exterior view.

Handheld 1966 Saint Louis view of a large white grid-like building rising behind a lower masonry exterior and utility wires. — White grid-like building seen above a lower urban structure.

1966 Saint Louis street view with a glowing red traffic light, overhead wires, and a tall white grid-front building in the background. — Red traffic signal against a tall grid-front building and utility wires.

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