Yorktown Virginia-1958: Stop At Office of Customs

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

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Stop At Office of Customs — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a small white building with a dark gabled roof and a prominent "CUSTOMS" sign. The structure, likely a customs office, features two windows and a brick chimney, set against a backdrop of water and a distant shoreline. A string of colorful pennant flags flutters in the breeze, adding a touch of nostalgia. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color fading, evoking mid-century Americana. This archival clip offers authentic period detail for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127285757

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: 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

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: Useful for 1950s editorial requests needing an exterior customs-office cutaway or small waterfront government-building detail in Yorktown, Virginia.
Period detail: The white facade, dark gabled roof, painted CUSTOMS sign, sash windows, chimney, railing, water, and pennant flags may show mid-century visitor or port-side setting details.
Home-movie behavior: The brief handheld view reads as visitor-shot home-movie footage, lingering on a recognizable public-facing sign rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the CUSTOMS lettering, gabled roof, white walls, two windows, chimney, railing, water, distant shoreline, and small pennant flags.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fade, frame-edge darkness, and handheld reframing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, location-establishing cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition within a Yorktown or historic waterfront sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually places a customs-labeled building near water, suggesting visitor attention to civic or maritime infrastructure without proving official function or ownership.
Research note: No people are visible, but the CUSTOMS sign and identifiable exterior should be reviewed for copyright, trademark, property, and location-identification considerations.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1958 Yorktown Virginia 8mm customs office, vintage waterfront government building, and mid-century home movie exterior sign footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Yorktown 1958 material, then broader 1950s waterfront, travel, civic-building, or Americana clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yorktown, Virginia home-movie frame showing a small white waterfront building with a dark CUSTOMS gable sign, windows, chimney, and railing. — Small waterfront building with a prominent CUSTOMS sign on the gable.

Yorktown, Virginia 1958 frame of the CUSTOMS sign on a small white building, with roofline, windows, railing, and water beyond. — CUSTOMS lettering fills the dark gable above the building's windows.

1958 Yorktown home-movie frame cropped on the CUSTOMS sign and white building, with a window, waterfront railing, water, and small pennant flags. — Closer view of the customs building with pennant flags above the waterline.

Late-frame 1958 Yorktown view of the customs-labeled building, tightly cropped with partial lettering, a window, railing, water, and pennant flags. — Partial CUSTOMS sign and waterfront details as the handheld frame shifts.

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