Dade County Florida-1955: Roadside Tourist Attraction with Rotating Windmill

$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.

Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationDade, Florida, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

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

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

Roadside Tourist Attraction with Rotating Windmill — Clip Details

DADE COUNTY FLORIDA-1955: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a distinctive yellow building with a large windmill structure on its roof, serving as a tourist attraction. Classic American cars from the mid-1950s are parked in front, and the scene is set against a backdrop of palm trees and a clear blue sky. The footage, shot from a moving vehicle, shows a quiet roadside with more palm trees and houses, evoking a nostalgic sense of mid-century Florida tourism and roadside Americana.

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: 123381564

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 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: Dade, Florida, 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.

View source reel context Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Dade County Florida roadside travel footage for documentary inserts about tourism, mid-century streetscapes, or home-movie views of palm-lined suburban roads.
Period detail: Visible era clues include mid-century cars, overhead utility poles, palm-lined roads, and a novelty windmill building that may show a roadside tourist stop.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, moving past the attraction and along nearby roads from inside a car rather than staging a formal view.
What appears in frame: The frames show a yellow windmill-fronted building, parked cars, lawns, palm trees, utility poles, low houses, and a quiet paved road.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, variable exposure, and handheld vehicle movement that read as home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for Florida travel, roadside Americana, or mid-century neighborhood movement.
Historical context: The footage visually places a tourist attraction and residential roadside within a palm-lined South Florida setting without identifying the exact business.
Research note: No people, children, or logos are visible, but the identifiable building and roadside properties may still require property or contextual review separate from copyright.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1950s Florida home movie, Dade County roadside attraction, 8mm windmill building, palm-lined street, and mid-century Florida cars.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1955 Dade County Florida clips, then broader 1950s travel, roadside attraction, and palm-lined street footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 Dade County Florida home-movie frame showing a yellow tourist-attraction building with a windmill, lawn, parked cars, and palms. — A yellow roadside attraction with a windmill structure stands beside parked mid-century cars and palm trees.

1955 Dade County Florida street view from a moving car, with palms, utility poles, low roadside buildings, and a dark car ahead. — The camera looks down a palm-lined road with a mid-century car traveling ahead.

1955 Dade County Florida moving-vehicle view of a quiet road with palms, utility poles, houses, a dark car, and a larger vehicle. — A moving car view follows traffic past low houses and palms along a quiet Florida road.

1955 Dade County Florida road view from inside a moving car, showing palms, utility poles, a dark car ahead, and low buildings. — The shot continues along the palm-lined road, with the car hood visible at the bottom of frame.

Visually Similar Clips