New York City-1960: Modernist Building In Focus

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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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Modernist Building In Focus — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures a low-angle view of a towering modernist building in New York City. The camera tilts upward, revealing the structure's imposing concrete facade and geometric lines against a bright sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly out-of-focus quality, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This clip offers a rare glimpse of mid-century urban architecture, perfect for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, or editorial content exploring 1960s cityscapes.

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: 127725129

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing 1960s New York City home-movie views of modernist urban architecture for documentary, museum, education or editorial cityscape context.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century high-rise design through stark concrete or stone surfaces, vertical massing, narrow windows and a low-angle street-level viewpoint.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the visitor-shot gaze upward at a large city building, with handheld framing that feels observational rather than staged.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tall facade planes, sharp vertical edges, a sloping dark foreground form, bright sky openings, rail-like detail and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries dense grain, bluish color shift, soft focus, uneven exposure and gate edges that signal original physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief architectural insert, urban transition, establishing cutaway or reflective memory beat within a New York or 1960s sequence.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for postwar urban scale and modernist building forms without confirming a specific landmark or institutional site.
Research note: No people, logos or audible music are indicated, but building identification and any property or copyright questions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1960 New York City 8mm building footage, vintage modernist architecture, low-angle urban facade and home-movie cityscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with New York City footage from 1960, then with related 1960s urban architecture and skyline material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 New York City home-movie frame showing a low-angle view of a tall modernist facade with a bright sky opening above. — A dark building plane rises diagonally toward a bright sky opening.

Low-angle 1960 New York City view of a tall modernist building face, vertical wall planes and a small rail-like detail near the base. — The building face fills the frame with strong vertical geometry.

1960 New York City frame with angular high-rise surfaces, a bright sky gap and a dark rail-like line along the lower edge. — Angular facade planes and sky gaps create a geometric city view.

Late-frame view from 1960 New York City showing a modernist building corner, vertical wall planes and bright sky at the edges. — The camera frames the building corner between bright sky openings.

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