New Orleans Louisiana USA-1958: Driving Down A Highway That Is Completely Flooded

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationNew Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 New Orleans Louisiana

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Driving Down A Highway That Is Completely Flooded — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1958 showing a view from inside a car driving through a flooded highway in New Orleans, Louisiana. The scene captures a dramatic storm aftermath with water covering the road, a distant pier, and classic automobiles navigating the submerged street. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and authentic wear, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century American life and weather challenges. The perspective includes the car's dashboard and window frame, enhancing the immersive, personal feel of this archival clip.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120977784

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1958 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: New Orleans, Louisiana, 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s New Orleans home-movie footage for productions needing storm aftermath, flooded roadway, or mid-century driving atmosphere.
Period detail: The scene may show late-1950s automobiles seen from inside a car, with a flooded roadway and pier-like structures consistent with the supplied New Orleans metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value comes from the passenger or driver viewpoint, recording an improvised trip through high water rather than a staged news scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include floodwater across the road, distant cars, a pier or elevated structure, dashboard edge, windshield framing, sky, and film dirt.
Film character: Soft focus, muted color, visible grain, gate edges, and small specks give the 8mm scan a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or memory beat for storm aftermath, travel disruption, or everyday resilience.
Historical context: The clip visually places mid-century automobile travel against weather disruption without identifying the storm, road, or structure beyond supplied location metadata.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location context, and any roadway or structure identification should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 New Orleans flood driving, 1950s highway under water, 8mm storm aftermath car footage, and vintage flooded road home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1958 New Orleans footage, then broader flooded road, storm aftermath, and mid-century driving material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 New Orleans home-movie view from inside a car approaching a flooded road with distant cars and elevated structures. — View through the car windshield toward floodwater, distant traffic, and pier-like buildings.

Inside-car view in 1958 New Orleans showing high water over the road, a car ahead, and distant pier-like buildings. — A vehicle moves through standing water as the camera looks out from inside another car.

1958 New Orleans flooded roadway seen from inside a car, with another automobile crossing the water ahead. — The home-movie camera follows traffic moving slowly through a submerged road surface.

Home-movie frame from 1958 New Orleans showing cars crossing a flooded roadway beyond the windshield and dashboard. — Cars continue through high water, framed by the filming car's interior and soft 8mm exposure.

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