Washington United States-1955: Driving Past Stone Sculpture and Art Deco Building

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Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationWashington, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Driving Past Stone Sculpture and Art Deco Building — Clip Details

DADE COUNTY FLORIDA-1955: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a drive through a city, showcasing a large stone sculpture of a horse and rider, followed by an Art Deco building with a bas-relief frieze and a sign for the Federal Trade Commission. The footage, shot from a moving vehicle, includes a distant view of a prominent monument, likely the Lincoln Memorial, under an overcast sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American atmosphere.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 123381211

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: 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 1573 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1955
Reel-level location note: florida
Date: 1955 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: Washington, 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 8mm travel footage for editors needing a brief urban landmark drive-by or civic-building cutaway with mid-century home-movie texture.
Period detail: The frames show an Art Deco or civic facade, bas-relief panels, formal steps, and a distant monument-like structure that may indicate a mid-century sightseeing route.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational value of a visitor filming from a moving vehicle, catching architecture and skyline details without staging.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale stone building, sculptural friezes, multi-pane doors, steps, window railings, a streetlamp, a dark car-frame edge, and a distant memorial-like structure.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, muted color, gate edges, dust specks, slight jitter, and motion blur that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, transitional drive-by, civic architecture cutaway, or memory beat in a 1950s travel sequence.
Historical context: The imagery places the viewer in a mid-century urban sightseeing context, emphasizing public architecture and distant monumental forms rather than personal activity.
Research note: No people are visible, but building identification, signage, location metadata, and property or copyright questions should be reviewed before final use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1950s 8mm city drive-by, vintage civic building facade, home movie urban architecture, and mid-century landmark sightseeing footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with same-year Dade County or verified location material, then with broader 1950s urban travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1950s 8mm frame of a pale civic building facade with relief sculpture, dark windows, and gridded entrance doors. — A moving-vehicle view passes a stone or stucco civic facade with sculptural relief above the entrance.

1950s 8mm frame showing a formal building entrance with steps, decorative relief, windows, and dark foreground film edge. — The camera continues past a formal facade with steps leading to gridded entrance doors beneath a relief panel.

1950s 8mm frame of a building entrance from a moving vehicle, with steps, a streetlamp, windows, and relief detail. — A closer pass shows the doorway, steps, streetlamp, and adjacent windows on the same pale facade.

1950s 8mm frame showing a distant memorial-like structure beyond a low wall, filmed under a washed pale sky. — The final view opens to a distant monument-like structure across a low wall and broad foreground.

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