Phoenix Arizona USA-1956: A Pan American Van and Storage Truck Appears and a Woman Walks With Poles

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Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationPhoenix, Arizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1956 Phoenix Arizona

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A Pan American Van and Storage Truck Appears and a Woman... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Phoenix, Arizona, 1956, showing a Pan American Van and Storage Co. truck driving through a suburban neighborhood. The film captures the classic American mid-century aesthetic with its distinctive purple-tinted color palette and grainy texture. A woman in a red dress walks across the frame carrying long wooden poles, likely shovels or poles, as she moves past a house with a white garage door. The footage has a nostalgic, candid quality typical of personal home movies from the era, with natural lighting and slight camera shake.

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: 120780038

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1956 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Phoenix, Arizona, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This clip supports 1950s Phoenix suburb, moving-day, trucking, and domestic neighborhood requests for documentary inserts, regional history pieces, and mid-century home-movie sequences.
Period detail: The Pan American Van and Storage Co. truck, low suburban house, white garage door, and casual yard activity may show mid-century residential moving or household work in Phoenix, Arizona.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld framing captures an unstaged home-movie moment as the truck passes and a woman carries long poles beside a house.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark moving truck with Pan American Van and Storage Co. lettering, a road or driveway edge, trees, a light-colored house, a white garage door, porch railing, grass, and a woman in a red top carrying long poles.
Film character: The 8mm film has soft focus, visible grain, purple color shift, uneven exposure, and slight handheld motion that give the shot a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, transition, or memory beat for 1950s moving, suburban life, commercial trucks, or household labor.
Historical context: The scene places a branded moving or storage vehicle within a residential setting, linking commercial transport with everyday domestic activity without establishing a specific event.
Research note: Human review should note the visible company branding, a recognizable adult face in one frame, and residential exterior details, with copyright, trademark, likeness, and property considerations assessed separately.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1950s Phoenix home movie moving truck, Pan American Van and Storage 8mm footage, mid-century Arizona suburb, and woman carrying poles home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1956 Phoenix or Arizona residential footage, and then with broader mid-century moving, trucking, and suburban household activity material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 Phoenix home-movie frame showing a dark Pan American Van and Storage truck partly cropped as it moves past a residential street with trees in the background. — Pan American moving truck enters the frame.

A dark Pan American Van and Storage Co. truck is seen close up in 1956 Phoenix home-movie footage, with its company sign and red map graphic visible on the side. — Truck side lettering and storage company sign.

The truck's Pan American Van and Storage Co. lettering dominates the frame, with the dark vehicle body and a red map-shaped graphic below the sign. — Close-up of the moving truck sign.

A woman in a red top walks beside a light-colored Phoenix house carrying long wooden poles, with a white garage door, railing, windows, and lawn behind her. — Woman carries poles past a residential exterior.

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