Seaside New Jersey USA-1949: Light-Colored Sedan with Tail Fins Downtown

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Year1949
Decade1940s
LocationSeaside, New Jersey, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1949 Seaside New Jersey

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Light-Colored Sedan with Tail Fins Downtown — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1949 in Seaside, New Jersey, showing a classic 1950s car driving down a town street. The clip captures the rear view of a light-colored sedan with distinct tail fins and chrome details, moving through a small commercial district. The scene features period architecture, including a building with a pointed steeple and a retro sign, under a purple-tinged sky suggesting dusk. Other classic cars are parked along the street, and the film exhibits characteristic grain and color shifts of 8mm film, offering authentic mid-century Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120775670

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1071 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: jody eileen,steves bar mitzvah,barkins bungalows,canada,hotel,puerto rico
Reel-level year note: 1949-1955-1957-1970
Reel-level location note: canada,st. thomas,new jersey, philadephia
Date: 1949 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: Seaside, New Jersey, 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: Archival 8mm street-travel footage from Seaside, New Jersey in 1949 suited to documentary uses needing postwar American road scenes, small commercial districts, or period automobile movement.
Period detail: The light-colored sedan, chrome trim, rounded body forms, parked older cars, storefront architecture, streetlamps, and visible roadside sign may show late-1940s to early-1950s visual details within the supplied 1949 home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a passenger or roadside home-movie view following a car through town rather than a composed commercial traffic scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the rear of a pale sedan, multi-lane town roadway, parked period cars, storefronts, a pointed roofline or steeple-like architectural detail, streetlamps, a roadside sign, and purple-shifted sky.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture through soft focus, visible grain, color shift toward blue and purple, uneven exposure, and slight handheld or in-camera motion.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, road-travel transition, establishing cutaway, or memory beat for mid-century seaside-town movement.
Historical context: The scene visually places automobile travel within a small New Jersey commercial street environment, showing everyday public road use and roadside architecture without supporting a specific event claim.
Research note: People or faces may be visible inside vehicles, a sign or possible logo appears in the street scene, and copyright, likeness, trademark, and property considerations should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches include 1949 Seaside New Jersey 8mm street footage, vintage car driving through town, postwar home movie road scene, and mid-century American commercial district traffic.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent clips from the same reel, then with other Seaside, New Jersey footage from 1949, and then with related themes such as vintage automobiles, town streets, and seaside travel.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close rear view of a pale vintage sedan with chrome trim traveling along a street in the supplied 1949 Seaside, New Jersey home-movie context. — Pale sedan seen from behind on the road.

A pale sedan drives past storefronts and parked or passing cars in Seaside, New Jersey, as shown in the supplied 1949 8mm footage. — Sedan moving through a small commercial street.

The pale sedan continues down the street past storefronts, streetlamps, parked cars, and a pointed roof detail in the supplied Seaside, New Jersey home-movie footage. — Car receding along the town street.

A wider 8mm frame shows the pale sedan farther down the Seaside, New Jersey street with parked cars, roadside buildings, streetlamps, and a visible sign form. — Wider view of the street and traffic.

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