New York-1962: View Through Brick Archway Into Historic Building Entrance

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 New York

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View Through Brick Archway Into Historic Building Entrance — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a view through a brick archway into a dimly lit passageway. The structure features a large arched entrance with green trim and textured brickwork, suggesting a historic building or station. The camera slowly pulls back, revealing more of the surrounding architecture and a glimpse of a snowy landscape beyond. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and light leaks, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic 1960s home movie offers a rare glimpse into mid-century urban life and architecture.

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: 127643360

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 1182 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: zoo
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1962 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: New York, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1962 New York editorial projects needing a brief architectural cutaway of a brick arched entrance seen from a visitor-shot home-movie perspective.
Period detail: The frame may show mid-century urban or park architecture, with green-painted trim, textured brickwork, snow on roof edges, and distant parked cars as visible era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the observational feel of a visitor pausing behind foreground bars or posts to record an entrance and its surrounding winter setting.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a brick archway, green trim, dark passage, snow-lined roof edges, bare branches, utility wires, distant cars, and a small adjacent structure.
Film character: The 8mm image carries dense grain, soft focus, exposure variation, slight color shift, and dark gate edges that preserve the physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, architectural cutaway, or memory beat within a New York winter or historic-building sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents how a 1962 home-movie camera encountered older-looking brick architecture in New York, without confirming the site or building function.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but the specific structure should be identified separately for property, location, and copyright context.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 New York 8mm architecture, vintage brick archway entrance, snowy urban building cutaway, and home-movie historic structure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 New York exteriors, then broader vintage architecture or winter urban cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 New York 8mm frame showing a brick arched entrance with green trim, partly obscured by dark foreground bars. — A brick archway and dim entrance are viewed from behind dark foreground posts.

1962 New York home-movie frame of a green-trimmed brick arch and shadowed entrance, with winter snow visible nearby. — The camera frames the green-edged brick arch and dark passage beneath it.

1962 New York 8mm view of a brick arched entrance with snow on roof edges, bare trees, and a small adjacent roofline. — More of the winter surroundings appear around the brick entrance as the view widens.

1962 New York home-movie frame widening to show the brick archway, snow beyond, parked cars, and a small structure at right. — The pullback reveals nearby roofs, snowy ground, and distant cars beyond the archway.

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