New York City-1964: Brooklyn Bridge and Woolworth Building Skyline

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationNew York City, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 New York

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Brooklyn Bridge and Woolworth Building Skyline — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures iconic New York City landmarks. The footage opens with a hazy, purple-tinted skyline featuring the distinctive spire of the Woolworth Building. The camera then focuses on the stone towers and suspension cables of the Brooklyn Bridge, showcasing its Gothic arches and historic architecture. The final frames return to a cityscape view from a rooftop, with apartment buildings and water towers under a grainy, atmospheric sky. The entire clip exhibits the characteristic grain, color shift, and soft focus of 1960s Super 8 home movies, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century New York.

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: 125499778

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip.

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 1070 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: worlds fair
Reel-level year note: 1964-1965
Reel-level location note: new york city
Date: 1964 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: New York City, New York, 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: Useful for 1960s documentary or museum edits needing brief visitor-shot New York City landmark footage with the Brooklyn Bridge and lower Manhattan skyline.
Period detail: The Woolworth Building silhouette, Brooklyn Bridge masonry towers, rooftop water tanks, and soft 8mm color shift support a mid-1960s New York setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a tourist or visitor perspective, with quick handheld views moving between skyline, bridge details, and rooftop cityscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the Woolworth Building spire, hazy skyscrapers, Brooklyn Bridge stone towers, suspension cables, rooftops, apartment blocks, and water tanks.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries purple color shift, visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and gate-edge framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, landmark cutaway, travel transition, or memory beat for mid-century New York material.
Historical context: The footage places recognizable New York landmarks within an everyday rooftop and skyline view rather than a formal news or architectural survey.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but landmark, skyline, copyright, and property-context questions should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Researchers may find this under 1964 8mm New York City skyline, Brooklyn Bridge home movie, Woolworth Building skyline, or vintage NYC landmark footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel scenes, then other 1964 New York City clips, then broader 1960s urban skyline, bridge, travel, and landmark footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 8mm view of a hazy New York City skyline with the Woolworth Building rising near the center. — Lower Manhattan skyline with the Woolworth Building seen through hazy 8mm color.

1964 New York City home-movie view of a Brooklyn Bridge stone tower, cables, and Gothic arches. — Brooklyn Bridge tower and suspension cables in a close landmark view.

Close 1964 8mm view of the Brooklyn Bridge tower with masonry piers, arches, and diagonal suspension cables. — Closer look at the Brooklyn Bridge masonry tower and cable structure.

1964 New York City rooftop view with low apartment buildings, water tanks, and distant vertical structures. — Rooftop cityscape with water tanks and apartment blocks under a hazy sky.

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