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Historical Interest Stock Video Footage

Licenses 3460 high quality Historical Interest stock video clips in 4K, raw formats

Compass In Studio Close-Ups

Lumixar

Pocket Watch Macros

Amnesty Films

Pocket Watch Ticking On Table

Kieran Fowler

Cop Interrogating Suspect

Lumixar

Infrared Slow Motion Men in Nature Performing Ritualistic Acts

Luke Fletcher

The needle of a compass turns as light and shadow play across its face
Rotating globe in motion
A close up of a clock face
A low-angle shot shows a pedestrian crossing signal changing from a red 'don't walk' hand to a white 'walk' person symbol on a city street
The pages of a thick illustrated book flipping in slow motion
A surreal black and white cinemagraph shows a cloaked female figure resembling the Grim Reaper holding a scythe and looking at an old stone church
Audio player with reels spinning around
A canon is set in front of a cemetery
The needle on a compass spins around and around
A monument statue in the woods at midday
A view of a stopwatch on a table
Vintage 1969 film captures the iconic Jackson Square in New Orleans, featuring the Andrew Jackson statue, St. Louis Cathedral, and visitors strolling through the park
A golden mechanical pocket watch lays flat as its arms rotate around its face
Vintage VHS footage captures the iconic view of the Manhattan Bridge from a bustling street in DUMBO, Brooklyn

Pocket Watch Ticking On Table

Kieran Fowler

Pages of a book being flipped
Close-up of a vintage reel-to-reel tape recorder playing, with a grainy Super 8 film aesthetic
A timelapse of a tugboat sitting at a dock on an overcast day
A person slowly turns the pages on a notebook that is filled with handwriting
Old files and papers on table
Old photographs
Hand of a clock shows the time on a clock decorated with maps
A vintage home movie captures a tilt down of a historic stone church, a smiling woman, and scenes from a sunny park
Horsedrawn carriage carrying people on a rural road beside wooden buildings

Cop Interrogating Suspect

Lumixar

Infrared Slow Motion Men in Nature Performing Ritualistic Acts

Luke Fletcher

Vintage VHS footage captures a city street corner with vibrant flowers in the foreground and classic apartment buildings with fire escapes
The tape recorder is operating
A cow with horns rests in a lush green mountain pasture before beginning to graze on the grass
A macro close-up of a vintage analog watch face with the second hand ticking, representing the inexorable passage of time
Black and white cinemagraph of a train arriving in a Chicago rail yard against the city skyline and a dramatic sky
A footage of a car on a motion on a freeway beside the dockyard
A person holds photos as cars drive by
A compass is spinning to see the direction
Earth globe spinning in a dark room
Vintage 16mm film captures scenes of a family admiring historical statues in a city park in the 1950s
A castle is on the top of the hill
Person turns the pages of a book
A shaft of light falls across a worn stone floor inside a church illuminating a large engraved slab with latin text while nearby pews cast long cool shadows
A view of the exterior of a building
A closeup shot focuses on the intricate brass gears of an antique clock revealing the detailed mechanics and ornate hands against a roman numeral dial
The moon goes down behind the statue of liberty
Close up of analog clock with hour hand and minute hand
A stop watch is counting on the table
The tape recorder reels are spinning
An archival home movie documents a tourist visit to Andrew Jackson's Hermitage, showing the grand mansion, grounds, and historic tomb
City lights glow brightly on the surface of earth from space
A bookshelf filled with books in a room
A large group of people walk together
Vintage footage of the statue of liberty in new york
The video is an extreme lowangle shot of the highly ornamented facade of an ornate cathedral almost certainly st marks basilica in venice with the sky as the backdropthe focus is on the row of five arches featuring intricate gold mosaics
A close-up rack focus shot reveals the map details on an antique, dusty globe
A person is tracing a pen on a map of the world
A viewing platform with an observation tool to see in the distance
The sun shines on an old castle as clouds move in the sky and it gets darker outside
Vintage home movie captures two women smiling and waving from a horse-drawn cart on a sunny day in the country
A camera lens aperture opens
Dramatic time-lapse of the iconic Sólheimasandur plane wreck on a black sand beach under a dark, cloudy sky in Iceland
A brass compass sits with its cover open
A stone wheel (a tahona) with an iron bar in the middle
A weathered stone structure lies on a rocky surface under soft lighting
A macro close-up shot of the ticking second hand on the face of an old, vintage wristwatch
Person holds smartphone and group of photographs as it rains
Compass finds direction with a needle that moves
Gearsturn on the face of a clock in a dark area
Vintage 8mm footage captures various scenes from a family's visit to a European-themed park in the 1960s

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