Saint Louis Missouri-1964: Big Circular Metal Building During A Sunny Day

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationSaint Louis, Missouri, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 Saint Louis Missouri

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Big Circular Metal Building During A Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a large circular metal structure under a bright blue sky in Saint Louis, Missouri. The footage showcases the building's intricate geometric framework and glass panels, with the camera panning across its expansive dome. The warm sunlight highlights the metallic lattice against the clear sky, creating a striking contrast. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century architecture and construction, perfect for documentaries, historical content, or retro-themed projects.

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: 127732940

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 1616 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1961-1964
Reel-level location note: saint louis
Date: 1964 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: Saint Louis, Missouri, 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: 1960s Saint Louis 8mm footage suited to requests for mid-century architecture, urban landmarks, geometric glass structures, or establishing cutaways in documentary edits.
Period detail: The metal lattice, glass panels, and home-movie color stock may show a mid-century public garden or exhibition structure in Saint Louis during 1964.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, looking up and panning across the dome and adjacent structure without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a geodesic glass dome, slanted metal framework, blue sky, windowed facade, roofline, trees, and dark frame edges from the 8mm scan.
Film character: The footage carries saturated blue color, soft 8mm grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that preserve the texture of original home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an architectural insert, location transition, science or design cutaway, or brief memory beat within a 1960s Saint Louis sequence.
Historical context: The frames document public-facing modernist architecture and leisure travel views, with emphasis on structure and setting rather than people or events.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, but building identification and property or location permissions should be reviewed separately from film copyright.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1964 Saint Louis 8mm geodesic dome, mid-century glass building home movie, circular metal structure, and Missouri architecture footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then with other Saint Louis 1964 material, and then with broader 1960s architecture, gardens, exhibitions, or civic landmark footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Saint Louis home-movie frame showing a circular glass-and-metal dome beneath a bright blue sky. — A low-angle view frames the dome's metal lattice and glass panels against the sky.

Saint Louis 1964 frame with a sloped glass-and-metal structure, adjacent roofline, pale wall, and trees in the background. — The camera view shifts toward the building edge and neighboring roofline.

1964 Saint Louis frame looking across the angular glass facade, vertical supports, and nearby roof under clear daylight. — A closer angled view emphasizes the structure's glass panels and vertical supports.

Saint Louis 1964 home-movie frame showing the glass wall and diagonal metal lattice of the large circular structure. — The final view holds on the diagonal lattice and windowed side of the structure.

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