New York-1959: The Camera Pans Up The Tall Building And Captures The Details Of

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

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The Camera Pans Up The Tall Building And Captures The... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a low-angle pan up a towering Manhattan skyscraper. The footage exhibits a strong green color cast and heavy grain, characteristic of early color film stock. The camera moves steadily upward, revealing the building's repetitive window grid against a pale sky. The image is framed by dark borders, with visible film scratches and dust, enhancing its authentic archival quality. This clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of New York City's mid-century architecture.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125576153

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: Supports requests for 1950s New York exterior architecture footage, especially documentary inserts needing a visitor-shot upward view of a tall city building.
Period detail: The low-angle skyscraper view, pale sky, and 8mm color home-movie texture may show mid-century Manhattan streetscape details without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged visitor perspective, with the camera tilting upward to take in the height and window pattern of the building.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include green-tinted building faces, repetitive window grids, pale sky, dark film borders, dust specks, scratches, and contact-sheet frame divisions.
Film character: Strong green color shift, coarse grain, soft focus, gate edges, dust, and slight handheld movement give the footage a clear original 8mm archive character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short city cutaway, architectural insert, upward-looking transition, or memory beat for mid-century New York material.
Historical context: The footage visually reflects a home-movie encounter with Manhattan vertical architecture, emphasizing scale and repetition rather than street activity or identifiable people.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable signs are visible, but building identification, copyright status, and any property-related use should still be reviewed for the intended project.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1959 New York 8mm skyscraper, vintage Manhattan building pan, mid-century city architecture, and home movie tall building exterior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1959 New York exteriors, then broader 1950s urban architecture and travel home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 New York 8mm frame showing a low-angle, green-tinted view of a tall building face against pale sky. — The camera begins close to the side of a tall building, with window rows softened by green color cast.

Low-angle 8mm frame with green skyscraper surfaces, a dark central border, and pale sky in the background. — The upward pan passes between tall green-cast building surfaces divided by the film frame edge.

1959 New York home-movie frame showing a tall building facade with faint window rows and heavy green cast. — A tall facade fills the frame as the camera continues upward, with soft windows and visible film texture.

End frame of the upward pan showing the stepped top of a green-tinted Manhattan skyscraper against pale sky. — The pan reaches the building's upper stories, where the roofline appears stepped against the sky.

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