Utah USA-1952: Stone Building with Porch and Parked Cars

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationUtah, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1952 Utah

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Stone Building with Porch and Parked Cars — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a wide view of a well-designed stone building nestled in a rugged, arid landscape in Utah. The structure features a long covered porch with yellow support beams and is surrounded by a parking area filled with classic American cars from the early 1950s. The camera pans slowly across the scene, revealing the building's integration into the rocky hillside and the sparse desert vegetation in the foreground. The footage exhibits natural film grain and color fading typical of Super 8 home movies, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American road travel and architecture.

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: 123337197

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1952 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: Utah, 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: Solves requests for early 1950s American Southwest road-trip coverage — useful for travel, infrastructure, or mid-century tourism documentary sequences.
Period detail: Yellow-beam colonnade and low-profile stone construction suggest early 1950s institutional or park-service architecture; parked vehicles appear consistent with early 1950s American automobiles.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from an elevated vantage point, this is a tourist's unhurried pan — the kind of footage a road tripper would take to document a notable stop, not a staged production.
What appears in frame: Stone masonry building with yellow colonnade, curved access road, 1950s automobiles in a parking area, yucca plants, desert scrub, rocky arid hillside, and distant plateau.
Film character: Warm color shift and visible grain typical of scanned 8mm stock give the image a period amber cast that reinforces its archival authenticity.
Edit role: Works as an establishing wide shot or cutaway in road-trip, Southwest travel, or mid-century architecture sequences.
Historical context: The building's horizontal stone-and-beam design and surrounding parking lot reflect the growth of automobile tourism and Western park infrastructure investment during the early postwar decade.
Research note: No people visible in these frames; building may be a public facility but property rights should be independently verified; no audible elements or brands identified.
Research search match: 1950s Utah desert film, vintage American Southwest road trip, mid-century park lodge footage, arid landscape 8mm, early 1950s travel documentary.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other reels from the 1952 New Orleans to Pacific road trip, then with Utah or Southwest desert footage from the same decade, then with mid-century American road travel or national park sequences.

Still Frames From This Clip

Stone building with yellow colonnade, Utah desert, circa 1952.

Stone lodge building, parking area with 1950s cars, Utah desert.

Wider angle showing the full extent of a stone-and-beam institutional building in Utah desert, circa 1952, with curved access road, parked cars, and rocky terrain. — Full building view with curved road and desert hillside, Utah, circa 1952.

Late pan frame of a mid-century stone building in Utah desert, circa 1952, showing curved road, 1950s cars, desert scrub, and rocky hillside terrain. — Stone building and curved parking road, Utah desert, circa 1952.

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