Philadelphia Pennsylvania-1962: Historic Building with Columns and Flag

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

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Historic Building with Columns and Flag — Clip Details

PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA-1962: Panning up a historic building with white columns and arched windows, an American flag flies above the entrance. The 8mm film captures the structure's classical architecture against a modern skyscraper, with a white fence and flowers in the foreground. Shot on vintage Super 8 film, this archival footage shows natural film grain and color shifts, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century Philadelphia for documentaries, editorial, or historical content.

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: 127709165

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 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s Philadelphia architecture requests needing brief home-movie views of a historic civic-looking building set against a modern downtown skyline.
Period detail: The American flag, classical facade, white railing, and adjacent high-rise may show mid-century urban Philadelphia with older public architecture beside newer office towers.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, panning upward from a fence and plantings toward the building entrance, upper windows, flag, and skyline.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white fence, flowers, dark brick facade, arched doorway, shuttered windows, American flag, steps, and a tall modern building behind it.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, blue color shift, visible grain, gate edges, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, architectural cutaway, or transition between Philadelphia street scenes and civic-history material.
Historical context: The view places older classical architecture in visual conversation with a taller modern building, suggesting downtown change without identifying a specific landmark.
Research note: People and possible identifying marks are visible at small scale, so copyright, likeness, trademark, and property context should be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 Philadelphia 8mm architecture, American flag building facade, historic building with arched windows, and vintage city home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Philadelphia footage, then broader mid-century urban architecture or landmark exteriors.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Philadelphia home-movie frame showing a white fence, plantings, a classical building entrance, and a taller downtown building in the background. — Fence, flowers, and a historic-looking building facade with a modern tower behind it.

1962 Philadelphia frame of a classical building facade with arched entry, shuttered windows, railing, and a modern high-rise beyond. — Arched entrance and shuttered windows framed against a taller downtown building.

1962 Philadelphia home-movie frame looking upward at arched windows, white shutters, an American flag, and a downtown building beyond. — Upper windows and American flag on a dark brick facade, with city architecture behind.

1962 Philadelphia frame of the building's upper facade, showing arched windows, white shutters, flag, roofline, and a modern tower at right. — Panned-up view of arched upper windows, flag, roofline, and nearby high-rise.

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