Pisa Italy-1959: Modern High-Rise Building in Pisa, Italy

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationPisa, Italy
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 Pisa Italy

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Modern High-Rise Building in Pisa, Italy — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a camera panning upward along a modern high-rise building in Pisa, Italy. The grainy, monochrome footage reveals a grid of windows and a central structural column, with power lines and a street lamp briefly visible in the foreground. The perspective suggests a view from a lower vantage point, emphasizing the building's height and mid-century architectural style. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of urban development in post-war Italy, ideal for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, or studies of 1950s architecture.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127719593

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 1125 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: italian trip,casablanca,gibralter,barcelona,rome,florence,pisa,milan,naples
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: italy
Date: 1959 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: Pisa, Italy 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 requests needing late-1950s Italian urban architecture, postwar city texture, or an establishing cutaway of a modern multi-story building in Pisa.
Period detail: The window grid, flat facade, overhead wires, and street lamp may show mid-century urban infrastructure and modernist commercial or residential building design.
Home-movie behavior: The upward handheld pan gives a visitor-shot view from street level, recording height, facade pattern, and foreground utilities without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tall windowed facade, vertical structural bands, dark foreground posts, overhead wires, a street lamp, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and handheld pan movement that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short urban insert, architectural cutaway, transition into Pisa material, or memory beat for late-1950s city life.
Historical context: The footage visually places modern multi-story construction within a street-level Italian city setting, with utilities crossing the frame and no people visible.
Research note: No faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright status and any property-release needs for the building exterior.
Research search match: Search matches include 1959 Pisa 8mm building pan, Italian mid-century architecture footage, vintage urban windows, and home movie high-rise exterior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1959 Pisa footage, then broader Italian urban architecture or postwar city exteriors.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Pisa home-movie frame showing a multi-story window grid, street lamp, wires, and dark foreground framing. — Street-level view of a modern windowed facade with lamp and wires in the foreground.

1959 Pisa frame showing the upper part of a modern multi-story building with repeated window rows and vertical facade lines. — The upward pan reaches higher rows of windows across the building facade.

1959 Pisa home-movie frame showing lower rows of a windowed building partly obscured by poles, wires, and dark frame edges. — Foreground poles and wires cross the lower facade during the handheld pan.

1959 Pisa frame showing a modern facade with a central vertical structural element, window rows, and utility wires in front. — A vertical facade element and utility wires divide the repeated window pattern.

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