New Mexico USA-1953: Woman Walking Past Sea Breeze Motor Hotel And Sitting Woman

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationNew Mexico, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 New Mexico

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Woman Walking Past Sea Breeze Motor Hotel And Sitting Woman — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a sunny day at a retro motor hotel in New Mexico. A woman in a patterned dress walks along a concrete path near a swimming pool, passing yellow lounge chairs and a small stucco building with a red tile roof. Another woman relaxes on a chair in the grassy yard. The scene features classic mid-century details: a blue trash can, manicured shrubs, and a prominent 'Sea Breeze Motor Hotel' sign. The footage exhibits natural film grain and saturated colors typical of 8mm home movies from the era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 123348211

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: Yes
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 1929 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: ranch shearing,mrs gt watts,
Reel-level year note: 1953
Reel-level location note: roswell new mexico
Date: 1953 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 Mexico, 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1950s home-movie requests for mid-century roadside lodging, vacation travel, and casual women at a sunny motor hotel setting.
Period detail: Visible clues include yellow metal lounge chairs, stucco cottages with red tile roofs, manicured motel grounds, and a Sea Breeze Motor Hotel sign that may show mid-century roadside design.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged home-movie value as one woman walks past the lawn while another rests in a lounge chair, observed from a casual visitor perspective.
What appears in frame: Frames show a concrete walkway, green lawn, yellow lounge chairs, blue trash cans, clipped shrubs, small stucco buildings, palm trees, and a motel sign.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows saturated color, visible grain, uneven focus, handheld framing, and slight exposure variation that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, travel transition, roadside motel cutaway, or memory beat within a 1950s vacation sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents leisure around a motel or motor hotel courtyard, with women using outdoor seating and walking through landscaped grounds in warm weather.
Research note: People and a visible hotel sign require likeness and brand or trademark review, separate from any copyright assessment for the underlying film scan.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1950s 8mm motel courtyard, vintage motor hotel women, roadside lodging home movie, and mid-century vacation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel motel or travel shots, then New Mexico 1953 material, then broader 1950s roadside lodging and vacation leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 New Mexico home-movie frame showing a woman reclining on a yellow lounge chair in a sunny motor hotel courtyard. — A woman relaxes on a yellow lounge chair in the grassy motel courtyard.

1953 New Mexico home-movie frame of a woman walking through a sunny motor hotel courtyard with yellow chairs and shrubs. — A woman walks past lounge chairs and a blue trash can on the motel grounds.

Soft-focused 1953 New Mexico frame of a woman moving along a concrete path beside a sunny motor hotel lawn. — The walking woman passes the courtyard seating as the handheld camera drifts out of focus.

1953 New Mexico home-movie frame with a close view of a Sea Breeze Motor Hotel sign, sky, and palms. — The camera catches the Sea Breeze Motor Hotel sign near the motel grounds.

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