New York-1959: View Of Green Trees Water Tower And Headstones On A Sunny Day

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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View Of Green Trees Water Tower And Headstones On A... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban scene in New York. The footage pans across rooftops, evergreen trees, and a distant water tower under a hazy sky. A church steeple rises above the houses, and a grassy area with a chain-link fence and parked cars appears near a body of water. The film shows natural grain, slight color fading, and scratches typical of Super 8 home movies from the era. This archival footage evokes mid-century Americana and is ideal for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific projects.

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: 125574663

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 1101 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: north pole,game farm,amusement park, reel 2
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1959 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: New York, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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: 1959 New York 8mm home-movie footage for editors needing a brief suburban exterior, cemetery-adjacent, or waterside establishing cutaway.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century residential rooftops, a church steeple, a water tower, older parked cars, and simple chain-link fencing.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels like an informal home-movie pan from an elevated or window-side position, observing nearby buildings and open grounds without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include shingled rooftops, evergreen trees, a church steeple, light-colored houses, a water tower, parked cars, grass, fencing, and headstones.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, blue-green fading, dust, scratches, gate edges, and uneven exposure that mark it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, transition, memory beat, or visual bridge for suburban New York in the late 1950s.
Historical context: The footage presents a quiet residential or small-town edge near open ground and water, offering context for everyday built landscapes rather than a named landmark.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but buildings, headstones, and possible religious property should still be reviewed for copyright, property, and contextual use concerns.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1959 New York 8mm suburban rooftops, vintage home movie water tower, church steeple exterior, cemetery headstones, and waterfront cars.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then with New York 1959 exteriors, and then with mid-century suburban, cemetery, church, or waterside cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 New York 8mm view of shingled rooftops, evergreen trees, and a church steeple in a hazy suburban exterior. — Rooftops and a church steeple appear beyond evergreen trees.

1959 New York home-movie frame with pale buildings, rooftops, evergreen trees, and a church steeple behind the houses. — Light-colored buildings and a steeple sit beyond nearby rooftops.

1959 New York 8mm frame showing a close wall, small roofed structure, house roof, evergreen trees, and faded film texture. — A nearby wall and roofline frame trees and pale buildings.

1959 New York 8mm view of grassy headstones, a chain-link fence, parked cars, a water tower, and distant water. — Headstones and parked cars appear near a fenced grassy area by water.

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