Philadelphia Pennsylvania-1962: Large Concrete Building With White Trim On The

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 Philadelphia Pennsylvania

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Large Concrete Building With White Trim On The — Clip Details

PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA-1962: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a large, historic brick building with white trim and arched windows, partially obscured by leafy trees. The camera pans upward, revealing a prominent tower and ornate roofline against a clear blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, warm color saturation, and natural daylight, evoking a nostalgic 1960s Americana atmosphere. This archival clip showcases a significant architectural landmark in Philadelphia, ideal for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific visual research.

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: 127708432

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 1619 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: philadelphia,penn
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: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 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 Philadelphia exterior architecture requests needing short archival cutaways of a historic brick building and tower in daylight.
Period detail: The clip may show early-1960s visitor footage of a colonial-style brick landmark, with white trim, arched windows, a flagpole, mature trees, and saturated 8mm color.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld upward pan and partial tree obstruction give it the value of a visitor-shot home movie rather than a staged architectural survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark brick walls, white roof trim, arched and gridded windows, a tall flagpole, leafy trees, a tower, blue sky, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, strong daylight contrast, saturated blue sky, slight jitter, and contact-sheet edge artifacts that mark it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, architectural cutaway, location transition, or memory beat within a Philadelphia or 1960s urban-history sequence.
Historical context: The views place historic public architecture within a leafy city setting, suggesting mid-century tourist or family documentation of Philadelphia landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but building identification, copyright status, and any property or location permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Search matches include 1962 Philadelphia 8mm landmark exterior, historic brick building with white trim, home movie city architecture, and vintage civic tower footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Philadelphia exteriors, then broader 1960s American landmark and historic-building footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Philadelphia home-movie frame showing a historic brick building with white trim, arched windows, leafy trees, and a clear sky. — Brick landmark facade with white trim partly obscured by trees.

1962 Philadelphia exterior view of a brick landmark corner with white trim, gridded windows, a flagpole, trees, and blue sky. — Flagpole and trees frame the brick building corner.

1962 Philadelphia low-angle frame with a historic brick building roofline, white trim, bare and leafy branches, flagpole, and blue sky. — Low-angle home-movie view of roof trim behind trees.

1962 Philadelphia frame showing the upper tower of a historic brick building with white trim, trees, a flagpole, and clear blue sky. — Upper tower and flagpole above the tree line.

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