Washington DC-1964: Large Green Tree and Person Walking Down Stairs

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationWashington, District Of Columbia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Large Green Tree and Person Walking Down Stairs — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched outdoor scene in Washington DC. The footage features a large, moss-covered tree with sprawling branches dominating the foreground, its textured green foliage contrasting with the bright sky. In the background, a building with visible stairs and a person walking down them are partially obscured by the tree. The image exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and natural light filtering through the leaves, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American atmosphere.

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: 125500742

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: 1964 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: Washington, District Of Columbia, 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

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: 1960s Washington, DC home-movie cutaway for productions needing leafy residential or civic outdoor atmosphere without identifiable people.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century exterior architecture glimpsed behind a large evergreen tree, with no clear landmark or date marker visible in the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from a visitor or family-film vantage point, observing shade, branches, steps, and a briefly passing figure through the foliage.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a broad evergreen branch, dark tree trunks, pale building walls, windows, exterior stairs, railing, bright sky, and dappled sunlight.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, warm exposure shifts, and handheld framing that give the short view its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet exterior insert, location transition, memory beat, or atmospheric cutaway between Washington, DC travel scenes.
Historical context: The view suggests a 1960s outdoor urban or institutional setting in Washington, DC, while the frames do not identify a specific building or event.
Research note: No faces, logos, or readable signs are visible, but copyright, property, and location identification should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1960s Washington DC home movie, 8mm evergreen tree exterior, vintage building stairs cutaway, and leafy urban travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent scenes from the same reel, then other Washington, DC 1964 exteriors, then broader 1960s trees, buildings, and travel cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Washington, DC home-movie frame showing a broad evergreen branch partly obscuring a pale exterior and steps. — A large evergreen branch fills the foreground as a pale building and stairs appear behind it.

1964 Washington, DC frame with dark evergreen limbs crossing a sunlit building facade, windows, and stair railing. — Tree limbs and shade dominate the view, with windows and exterior stairs visible in the background.

1964 Washington, DC home-movie still of evergreen branches in front of a pale building, window, and angled stair rail. — The camera remains partly screened by foliage while a pale exterior wall and stair rail show through.

1964 Washington, DC frame showing dense evergreen foliage layered across the view, with a small roofline partly visible behind. — Dense evergreen branches fill the final frame, reducing the building to a partial roofline behind the foliage.

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