Yorktown Virginia-1958: Grey Building Complex on Coastline

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationYorktown, Virginia, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Yorktown Virginia

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Grey Building Complex on Coastline — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a distant view of a large, grey building complex along a coastline, likely in Yorktown, Virginia. The scene is framed by dark borders, with the blue ocean in the foreground and a bright, overcast sky above. The footage shows subtle camera movement, likely from a boat, with visible film grain and slight blurriness characteristic of Super 8 home movies. The buildings appear to be mid-century structures, possibly hotels or institutional buildings, with a few antennas visible on the roof. The overall mood is nostalgic and observational, capturing a quiet moment of coastal life.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127284859

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: Yorktown, Virginia, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s color 8mm coastal establishing footage for documentary, museum, or education edits needing a distant waterfront building view in Yorktown, Virginia.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century waterfront buildings, antennas, beach structures, open water, and a bright sky consistent with the supplied 1958 home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The view has a visitor-shot feel from across the water, with the shoreline observed at a distance rather than staged for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue-green water, a low shoreline, large grey building blocks, small beach structures, roof antennas, pale sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, gate edges, and gentle handheld or boat-borne movement as archival texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief establishing insert, coastal transition, travel-memory beat, or cutaway between Yorktown-area home-movie scenes.
Historical context: The footage records a quiet waterfront view and may help illustrate mid-century leisure travel or shoreline development without identifying a specific landmark.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are apparent, but building identity, copyright, and any property-related permissions should be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1958 8mm Yorktown Virginia waterfront, vintage home movie coastal buildings, and 1950s color shoreline establishing shot.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Yorktown 1958 material, then broader 1950s waterfront, travel, and coastal-building footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yorktown, Virginia home-movie frame showing distant waterfront buildings across blue-green water with dark film borders. — Distant waterfront buildings seen across the water.

Distant Yorktown shoreline view with large grey buildings, low beach area, and open water in the foreground. — Large buildings line the distant shore beyond the water.

Soft 8mm frame of Yorktown waterfront buildings and a low beach area viewed from across blue-green water. — Waterfront buildings remain in distant view as the camera shifts.

1958 home-movie still of a distant Yorktown building cluster along the shoreline, framed by 8mm gate edges. — A shoreline building cluster is filmed from across the water.

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