Wisconsin Dells Wisconsin USA-1954: Blue Station Wagon on Residential Street

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Year1954
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1954 Wisconsin Dells

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Blue Station Wagon on Residential Street — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, USA, in 1954, showing a classic dark blue station wagon parked on a residential street. The car, a prominent mid-century American model with chrome trim and whitewall tires, is viewed from a low angle through a stone wall or porch pillar. In the background, a white and red truck passes by on the road. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, capturing a candid slice of 1950s Americana life.

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: 121493956

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 1212 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1953-1954
Reel-level location note: wisconsin
Date: 1954 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: Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing 1950s small-town Americana, residential street traffic, or mid-century family-film cutaways for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The dark station wagon, chrome trim, whitewall tire, passing truck, and residential street setting support a mid-1950s visual period reading.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, filmed from behind a porch or stone wall as everyday vehicles pass through a neighborhood scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark blue station wagon, chrome trim, whitewall tire, stone or porch posts, a residential street, a passing white-and-red truck, houses, and trees.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, gate edges, handheld framing, exposure variation, blue color shift, and light grain that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for 1950s travel, neighborhood life, family history, or car culture sequences.
Historical context: The footage presents ordinary street-level residential life in Wisconsin Dells in 1954 without visible people, signs, storefronts, or identifiable landmarks in these frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but vehicle design and residential surroundings may still warrant copyright, property, and contextual review.
Research search match: Search matches include 1954 Wisconsin Dells 8mm street footage, 1950s station wagon home movie, mid-century residential street traffic, and vintage car cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Wisconsin Dells 1954 material, then broader 1950s roadside, neighborhood, and automobile footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Wisconsin Dells home-movie frame showing a dark blue station wagon with chrome trim viewed through porch or wall posts. — A dark station wagon is framed between foreground posts on a residential street.

1954 Wisconsin Dells frame showing the front of a dark blue station wagon, whitewall tire, stone wall, and passing truck. — The station wagon's front end and whitewall tire appear beside a stone wall as a truck passes behind.

Soft 1954 Wisconsin Dells home-movie frame of a dark station wagon along a residential street with a truck and houses behind. — A parked station wagon sits along the curb while a light truck moves through the background.

The station wagon is seen in profile beneath soft exposure and blue-shifted 8mm color.

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