New York City-1960: View Of Shaded Beige Building Against Blue Sky On A Clear Day

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Year1960
Decade1960s
LocationNew York City, New York, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 New York City

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View Of Shaded Beige Building Against Blue Sky On A... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures a low-angle view of a shaded beige building against a clear blue sky in New York City. The camera slowly tilts upward, revealing a flagpole with a fluttering flag atop the structure. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and a nostalgic, candid quality typical of mid-century amateur film. The scene evokes a quiet, everyday moment from the 1960s urban landscape.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127724745

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 1615 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: november 23-26
Reel-level year note: 1960
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1960 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 City, 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 requests needing 1960s New York City exterior atmosphere, urban architecture cutaways, or brief establishing inserts from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The low-angle view, flagpole, muted color, and simple building facade may show mid-century urban street architecture, supported by the 1960 New York City metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, with the camera tilting upward from street level toward the building edge and flag rather than staging a formal architectural view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a shaded building wall, blue sky, flagpole, small flag, roofline edges, dark film borders, and slight contact-sheet frame separation.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, blue color shift, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short city cutaway, architectural insert, transition beat, or quiet memory detail within a 1960s New York sequence.
Historical context: The view suggests everyday urban observation rather than a named landmark, showing a building and flag against open sky in archival home-movie footage.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but building identity and any flag or property context should be reviewed separately from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1960 New York City 8mm building exterior, vintage home movie flagpole sky, urban architecture cutaway, and mid-century city street view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1960 New York City exteriors, then with broader urban building, flag, and sky cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 New York City 8mm frame showing a shaded building edge, blue sky, and partial street-level obstruction from a low angle. — A dark building facade rises into a blue sky in a low-angle city view.

1960 New York City 8mm frame with a small flag on a pole near the edge of a shaded building under blue sky. — A flagpole appears beside the upper edge of the shaded building.

1960 New York City 8mm frame showing a tilted low-angle view of a flagpole, small flag, dark facade, and blue sky. — The handheld tilt brings the flag and building wall into a diagonal composition.

1960 New York City 8mm frame focused on the shaded building wall, with a narrow band of blue sky and roofline above. — The camera settles on the dark building surface with sky visible near the roofline.

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