Los Angeles California-1969: Modernist Building With Trees In Front Of It

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationLos Angeles, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1967 Los Angeles California

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Modernist Building With Trees In Front Of It — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this clip captures a modernist white building with dark horizontal bands and rectangular windows, viewed through bare tree branches. A vertical pole frames the left side of the composition. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural film imperfections, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The static shot emphasizes mid-century architectural design against a stark, leafless winter or early spring backdrop, typical of a home movie from the era.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127502489

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 1343 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #9,easter,grandma granpa visit,spring rainbow,opening day,little league,baseball
Reel-level year note: 1969
Reel-level location note: clarendon hills, illinois, woodland hills, california
Date: 1969 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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 1960s Los Angeles architectural cutaways, urban establishing details, or documentary inserts needing real 8mm exterior footage.
Period detail: The white facade, dark horizontal bands, rectangular windows, and filmed 8mm look may show late-1960s modernist residential or institutional design.
Home-movie behavior: The static framing from a street-level or nearby vantage gives the clip the observational feel of a home-movie record rather than a staged architectural survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale modernist facade, dark balcony or shadow bands, rectangular windows, bare tree branches, a vertical pole, and black film-frame edges.
Film character: The scan carries visible 8mm grain, mild color fade, soft focus, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame boundaries that preserve the physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief exterior insert, transition, architectural cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a Los Angeles or 1960s urban sequence.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for mid-century built environments in Los Angeles without identifying the building, occupants, architect, or exact neighborhood.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable signs are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Searchers looking for 1969 Los Angeles 8mm modernist building exterior, bare trees, white facade, or vintage urban architecture may find this relevant.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Los Angeles 1969 exteriors, then broader 1960s modernist architecture or urban streetscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Los Angeles 8mm frame of a white modernist building with dark bands, rectangular windows, bare branches, and a pole at left. — White modernist facade partly obscured by tree branches and a vertical pole.

1969 Los Angeles exterior frame showing a white modernist facade, dark window band, bare tree branches, and black 8mm frame borders. — Static exterior view of a modernist building framed by branches and film borders.

1969 Los Angeles 8mm view of a pale modernist exterior with upper windows, a dark horizontal band, bare trees, and a vertical pole. — Pale building exterior with dark horizontal detail and leafless trees in front.

1969 Los Angeles frame showing the same white modernist building, rectangular windows, dark facade band, bare branches, and 8mm frame edges. — Final frame of the static modernist building view, with branches crossing the foreground.

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