Pisa Italy-1959: Modern Office Building with Grid Pattern Windows

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationPisa, Italy
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 Pisa Italy

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Modern Office Building with Grid Pattern Windows — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures the facade of a modern high-rise office building in Pisa, Italy. The footage reveals a grid of dark windows and light-colored panels, viewed through a window frame or blinds, creating a patterned, geometric composition. The grainy, monochrome image with soft focus and subtle camera movement evokes a nostalgic, mid-century urban atmosphere. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse of 1950s architecture and city life, ideal for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, or editorial content exploring mid-century design.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127719605

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1959 8mm footage of a modern office-building facade in Pisa can serve documentary requests for mid-century Italian urban architecture or abstract city cutaways.
Period detail: The rectilinear window grid, pale facade panels, and high-rise scale may show postwar modern office design visible to a home-movie traveler in late-1950s Pisa.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from behind a nearby window frame or blinds, giving the scene a casual visitor-shot viewpoint rather than a composed architectural survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include gridded office windows, light facade panels, dark vertical foreground bars, a shadowed horizontal divider, overhead wires or branches, and soft blue sky.
Film character: The 8mm image has visible grain, soft focus, slight handheld drift, muted color, and exposure variation that give the short view a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or architectural cutaway to suggest urban modernity, office work, or a mid-century Italian city setting.
Historical context: The clip presents a modern building facade from an ordinary street-level or interior vantage, useful as visual context without making claims about the building's identity.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but building identification and any separate property or location permissions should be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1959 Pisa office building, 8mm Italian high-rise facade, mid-century modern architecture footage, and vintage urban building cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Pisa 1959 material, then broader 1950s Italy architecture, street, and urban-modernity footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Pisa 8mm frame showing a light-paneled office building facade with rows of dark windows, partly obscured by foreground bars. — Rows of windows on a modern facade are viewed through a dark foreground frame.

1959 Pisa 8mm frame of a modern high-rise facade, with horizontal window rows and a dark vertical element blocking the center. — An angled view of the office facade emphasizes repeated window bands and vertical framing.

1959 Pisa 8mm frame showing a lower section of the modern office facade, partly crossed by a dark horizontal foreground band. — The lower facade appears behind a strong horizontal foreground shadow or frame.

1959 Pisa 8mm frame of the office facade seen through dark vertical foreground strips and thin diagonal wires or branches. — The final frame turns the window grid into a layered geometric view through foreground obstructions.

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