New York City-1964: Man Deeply Looking at City and Long Size Buildings

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

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Man Deeply Looking at City and Long Size Buildings — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a man in a dark suit standing against a grainy, purple-tinted backdrop, his face partially obscured in shadow. The scene transitions to a hazy, dreamlike view of the New York City skyline, with tall buildings and landmarks visible through a soft-focus, aged lens. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic, intimate quality, evoking mid-century Americana and personal memory.

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: 125499923

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: Yes
Minors 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: 1960s New York home-movie material for documentary inserts about urban memory, skyline watching, or a solitary visitor observing the city.
Period detail: The frames show 8mm-era color shifts, dark formal clothing, and a hazy New York skyline, with the 1964 date supported by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged, private-film feel as a man stands partly in shadow and the camera turns toward distant city buildings.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a shadowed man in glasses, dark suit fabric, purple-tinted film edges, a hazy skyline, tall buildings, and soft-focus architectural forms.
Film character: The footage carries dense 8mm grain, uneven exposure, purple color cast, gate edges, and soft handheld framing as part of its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief memory beat, urban transition, or contemplative cutaway between personal narration and New York skyline material.
Historical context: The clip reflects a personal 1960s view of New York, contrasting an obscured human figure with a distant metropolitan skyline.
Research note: A visible adult face may require likeness review, while no logos, children, music, or clearly identifiable private property are visible in the supplied frames.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1964 New York City 8mm skyline, man looking at city, vintage home movie urban buildings, and 1960s NYC cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then other 1964 New York City footage, then broader 1960s urban skyline or solitary observer scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 New York home-movie frame showing a shadowed man, possibly in a dark suit, with heavy grain and visible film-edge darkness. — A man appears in deep shadow, his outline and clothing softened by grain and color shift.

1964 New York home-movie frame with a man mostly in silhouette, framed close and partially obscured by underexposure. — The man remains largely silhouetted, with only faint facial and clothing detail visible.

1964 New York City home-movie skyline view, showing distant tall buildings softened by haze, grain, and faded color. — A hazy New York skyline appears through aged 8mm color and soft focus.

1964 New York home-movie frame showing a man's face partly visible in darkness, with glasses catching limited light. — A man's face and glasses emerge faintly from a dark, grainy frame.

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