Dallas Texas USA-1956: Man In Suit Walking From Desolate Building

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Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationDallas, Texas, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1956 Dallas Texas

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Man In Suit Walking From Desolate Building — Clip Details

A man in a white dress shirt and dark tie walks out of a weathered, unfinished concrete building in Dallas, Texas, in 1956. He stands with hands in his pockets, then begins to walk forward across a dirt lot. The vintage 8mm film shows a rural landscape with a road, grass, and old cars in the background under a bright blue sky. The footage has natural film grain, slight color shifts, and a nostalgic, documentary feel.

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: 120784855

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: No
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: Dallas, Texas, 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.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This clip supports 1950s editorial requests needing a brief Dallas-area home-movie view of a lone dressed man near an unfinished or weathered building in a sparse roadside setting.
Period detail: The man’s white dress shirt, dark tie, high-waisted trousers, older cars, open roadside, and unfinished concrete structure may show mid-1950s suburban or rural-edge visual details.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged home-movie moment of a man standing casually with his hands in his pockets before walking toward the camera.
What appears in frame: The frames show a man in a shirt and tie, a rough concrete building, dark window and doorway openings, a dirt lot, roadside grass, distant trees, and older cars passing or parked nearby.
Film character: The 8mm image has visible grain, soft focus, handheld framing, deep shadows, and blue-shifted color that read as original mid-century home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transitional cutaway, or memory beat for themes of postwar everyday life, isolation, travel, or roadside development.
Historical context: The footage gives a modest view of a dressed adult man beside a sparse building and open road, suggesting everyday movement through a developing outer-urban or rural-edge environment without proving a specific event.
Research note: A recognizable adult face is visible, so likeness review may be needed, while no logos, minors, audible music, or clearly identifiable private interiors are visible in the supplied frames.
Research search match: Relevant searches might include 1950s Dallas home movie man in tie walking, 8mm roadside building Texas, midcentury unfinished house exterior, and lone man rural road archival footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Dallas or Texas footage from 1956, and then with broader 1950s roadside, construction, or solitary walking material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In supported 1956 Dallas home-movie footage, a man in a white dress shirt and dark tie stands near a weathered concrete building with an open roadside landscape behind him. — Man standing beside a roadside concrete building.

The man remains near the unfinished-looking building in 1956 Dallas footage, with older cars and a grassy roadside visible in the background. — Man near building with cars by the road.

A man in a white dress shirt and tie walks toward the camera across a rough lot beside the concrete building, with roadside grass and an older car behind him. — Man walking forward across the lot.

The final frame shows the pale exterior wall of the roadside building, including a dark vertical opening, roof tiles, and a small framed feature along the right edge. — Building exterior with dark opening.

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