Baltimore Maryland-1961: Ywca Building With Tall Columns And Park View

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationBaltimore, Maryland, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 Baltimore Maryland

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Ywca Building With Tall Columns And Park View — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a low-angle view of a grand building in Baltimore, Maryland, featuring tall white columns and classical architecture. The footage includes a prominent YWCA sign with bold lettering against a bright sky, followed by a silhouette of a person standing in a doorway overlooking a sunlit park with flower beds and trees. The grainy, slightly overexposed quality and warm color tones evoke a strong sense of mid-century Americana and personal memory.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 127475073

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: Yes
Minors 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: 1961 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: Baltimore, Maryland, 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: 1961 Baltimore 8mm footage suited for documentary or educational sequences needing a brief urban institutional exterior, YWCA signage, and mid-century visitor perspective.
Period detail: The YWCA sign, classical columns, color 8mm texture, and park landscaping support an early-1960s Baltimore setting without identifying the exact building beyond the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a visitor casually filming from a shaded entrance toward signage, columns, and a public park, with an unidentified person passing through the doorway.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a vertical YWCA sign, silhouetted people, a shaded doorway, white classical columns, building facade details, trees, flower beds, and a sunlit park path.
Film character: The 8mm image shows handheld framing, strong contrast between shade and sun, visible grain, soft focus, and slight exposure shifts that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, institutional exterior cutaway, city-memory transition, or visual bridge between Baltimore street life and civic architecture.
Historical context: The footage offers a modest view of public-facing institutional architecture and park landscaping in Baltimore, filtered through a personal home-movie viewpoint.
Research note: Human likeness and YWCA branding are visible, so editorial use should distinguish copyright status from separate likeness, trademark, and location-identification review.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1961 Baltimore YWCA sign, 8mm Maryland institutional building, vintage home movie columns, and mid-century park view footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1961 Baltimore exteriors, and finally with civic buildings, park views, or women’s organization signage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A vertical YWCA sign appears beside the building exterior.

A shaded doorway frames a person and a bright park beyond.

Tall white columns dominate the low-angle architectural view.

The camera lingers on the columned exterior and facade details.

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