Danielson Connecticut-1939: Building with Tall Tower on Grassy Hill

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationDanielson, Connecticut, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Danielson Connecticut

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Building with Tall Tower on Grassy Hill — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from Danielson, Connecticut, in 1939, showing a large building with a prominent tall tower and two lower levels. The structure sits on a grassy hill, surrounded by bushes and trees, captured from a distance through a window frame. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight motion blur, and natural aging artifacts, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-20th century architecture and suburban life. The scene is calm and still, with no visible people or movement, emphasizing the building as a local landmark.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125328846

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: 1939 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: Danielson, Connecticut, United States 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 1930s Connecticut home-movie requests needing an exterior cutaway of a distant institutional or landmark-like building.
Period detail: The 8mm view may show late-1930s architecture, open lawns, simple shrub plantings, and a tall tower seen from a nearby window.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a visitor or resident briefly filming a notable building from indoors rather than staging a composed architectural study.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tall tower, low adjoining building masses, a grassy rise, shrubs, bare trees, window mullions, and pale sky.
Film character: Soft focus, muted color, gate weave, dust specks, and mild exposure variation give the 8mm footage a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, location transition, institutional cutaway, or memory beat in a New England sequence.
Historical context: The scene records a distant built landmark in a small-town landscape, with no visible pedestrians, vehicles, signage, or street activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable signs are visible, but the building identity and any property or copyright considerations should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Danielson Connecticut 8mm footage, distant tower building exterior, New England home movie, and 1930s landmark cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Danielson 1939 material, then other 1930s Connecticut town or institutional exteriors.

Still Frames From This Clip

Distant towered building in Danielson, Connecticut, seen across a grassy slope through a dark window frame in 1939 home-movie footage. — A tall tower and lower building sections appear beyond a grassy rise and window mullion.

The 1939 Danielson view holds on a distant towered structure, shrub line, grassy slope, and dark vertical window divider. — The building remains distant, partly softened by focus and aged 8mm film texture.

A shifted 1939 Danielson frame shows mostly pale sky through the window, with a low blurred landscape edge and dark mullions. — The camera drifts away from the building, leaving sky, window framing, and a soft horizon.

The final Danielson frame is largely sky seen through the window, with a soft low landscape band and visible 8mm dust and scratches. — A quiet end frame holds on sky, window dividers, and a faint landscape edge.

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