Warsaw Poland-1963: Looking Out The Window Over An Industrial City On A Hazy Day

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Year1963
Decade1960s
LocationWarsaw, Poland
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1963 Warsaw Poland

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Looking Out The Window Over An Industrial City On A Hazy Day — Clip Details

Shot from a high window in Warsaw, Poland, in 1963, this 8mm home movie captures a hazy, overcast day over an industrial cityscape. The view reveals dense rows of mid-century apartment buildings, a busy street with vintage cars, and a prominent factory chimney emitting smoke. The footage, framed by a window, shows slight camera movement and the characteristic grain and color fade of Super 8 film, evoking a strong sense of historical nostalgia and urban life in Cold War-era Eastern Europe.

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: 126990402

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: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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: 1963 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: Warsaw, Poland 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: 1960s Warsaw industrial city view useful for documentary cutaways, Cold War-era urban context, or archival transitions without visible people.
Period detail: The frames show mid-century city buildings, vintage street traffic, a hazy skyline, and a smoking industrial chimney consistent with the supplied 1963 Warsaw metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective from a high window, with the camera lingering on the city through dark window frames rather than staging a formal skyline view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include window mullions, dense urban blocks, a busy street, small cars, rooftops, haze, and an industrial chimney emitting smoke.
Film character: The 8mm footage shows soft focus, muted color, gate-edge darkness, grain, exposure variation, and slight handheld movement that give it physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, atmospheric transition, urban cutaway, or memory beat for Warsaw and industrial city life in the 1960s.
Historical context: The view places Warsaw within a dense postwar urban and industrial landscape, showing traffic, apartment blocks, rooftops, and smoke under overcast light.
Research note: No people are visible, but signage or brand-like rooftop lettering appears in the frame, so copyright, trademark, and location identification should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Searches such as 1960s Warsaw skyline, Poland industrial city 8mm, smoky factory chimney, window view over city, and Cold War urban home movie may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1963 Warsaw views, then broader 1960s Eastern European city, traffic, and industrial atmosphere footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1963 Warsaw window view over a busy street, rooftops, and mid-century urban buildings seen through dark frame edges. — High-angle city view through a window, with traffic and dense buildings below.

1963 Warsaw skyline through a window, showing rooftops, haze, and an industrial chimney releasing smoke. — Hazy urban skyline with a smoking industrial chimney beyond the window.

1963 Warsaw cityscape framed by a window, with rooftops, a distant street, haze, and a smoking industrial chimney. — Window-framed Warsaw cityscape with rooftops, street traffic, and industrial smoke.

Faded 1963 Warsaw 8mm view through a window, looking over a street, rooftops, haze, and an industrial chimney. — Soft 8mm city view through window frames, with rooftops and smoke on the horizon.

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