New Jersey-1958: Driving Past Brick Building With White Windows

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationNew Jersey, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 New Jersey

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Driving Past Brick Building With White Windows — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a blurry, handheld view of a brick building with white-framed windows, likely a church or school, as the camera moves past. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, film grain, and slight motion blur, suggesting a drive-by perspective. The building's facade features multiple windows and a visible arched entrance in later frames, with a small bush in the foreground. The overall mood is nostalgic and candid, offering a glimpse into mid-century American architecture and everyday life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Handheld
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125506845

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: 1958 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: New Jersey, 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s New Jersey 8mm footage useful for documentary inserts needing a brief drive-by view of institutional brick architecture.
Period detail: The white sash-style windows, brick facade, arched doorway, and roadside bollards may show mid-century civic, school, or church architecture.
Home-movie behavior: The camera appears to pass the building from a moving vehicle, giving the clip an unstaged traveler or family-record perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a brick facade, white-framed windows, an arched entrance, shrubs, roadside posts, pavement, and soft building details.
Film character: Soft focus, muted color, visible grain, gate edges, and motion blur give the 8mm scan a candid physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short exterior cutaway, location transition, or memory beat between family or travel scenes.
Historical context: The clip documents an ordinary exterior view of a brick institutional-looking building in New Jersey without identifying a specific site.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are visible or indicated, but copyright, location identity, and property-use questions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1958 New Jersey 8mm drive-by footage, brick school or church exterior, white windows, or mid-century building cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel travel footage, then other 1958 New Jersey exteriors, then broader 1950s institutional architecture scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 New Jersey 8mm frame showing a soft-focus brick building with white-framed windows and shrubs near the base. — Drive-by view of white windows on a brick building exterior.

1958 New Jersey frame with a blurred brick facade and repeated white windows as the camera moves past. — Soft drive-by glimpse of repeated windows on the brick facade.

1958 New Jersey 8mm frame showing a brick exterior with an arched doorway, white window, shrubs, and short roadside posts. — Arched entrance and roadside posts appear as the vehicle passes.

1958 New Jersey frame with a soft-focus brick exterior, a pale signboard or panel, roadside posts, and an adjacent roofline. — Final blurred exterior detail with signboard-like panel and roadside posts.

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