New York USA-1959: A Drive Down The Highway Towards Blue Waters On A Sunny Day

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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A Drive Down The Highway Towards Blue Waters On A Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a scenic drive along a winding highway through a lush, tree-covered landscape. The footage, viewed from a moving vehicle, shows classic automobiles traveling toward distant blue waters under a bright, sunny sky. The natural scenery features rolling hills and dense green forests, with a white guardrail lining the road. The film exhibits authentic Super 8 grain, slight motion blur, and subtle color fading, evoking a nostalgic 1950s Americana road trip. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects exploring mid-century travel and transportation.

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: 123044804

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 1101 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: north pole,game farm,amusement park, reel 2
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1959 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: New York, 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: 1950s New York home-movie road footage for productions needing a brief scenic highway travel insert or period driving transition.
Period detail: The divided roadway, white guardrail posts, older automobiles, wooded hills, and distant blue water may show mid-century leisure travel infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged passenger-eye view from a moving car, valuing the ordinary motion of a family or personal road trip rather than a composed travelogue shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a winding highway, guardrail posts, wooded slopes, distant water, sky, roadside signs, and small automobiles moving through the landscape.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, exposure variation, dust specks, and motion blur that mark it as scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quick road-trip insert, geographic transition, memory beat, or cutaway between mid-century travel or vacation scenes.
Historical context: The footage shows automobile travel through a wooded New York landscape toward open water, reflecting everyday scenic mobility without proving a specific route or destination.
Research note: No people, logos, or clear private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location or roadway identification needs separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s New York highway drive, 8mm home movie road trip, vintage car travel, wooded highway, and scenic road toward water.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1959 New York travel footage, then with broader mid-century driving, highway, vacation, or landscape themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 New York 8mm frame showing a car-window view down a wooded highway toward distant blue water. — A moving-vehicle view looks down a highway bordered by trees and white guardrail posts.

Passenger-view frame of a curving New York roadway, trees, guardrail posts, and blue water in the distance. — The road curves past dense trees with a distant band of water beyond the hillside.

Motion-blurred 8mm view from a moving vehicle across guardrails, trees, and distant blue water in New York. — Motion blur carries the view across a wooded roadside and a distant water horizon.

1959 New York home-movie frame looking down a tree-lined highway from a moving vehicle. — Cars travel ahead on a descending highway bordered by trees and white roadside posts.

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