Dade County Florida-1955: Driving Past Pink Motel

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

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Driving Past Pink Motel — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in Dade County, Florida, 1955, this vintage home movie captures a drive through a mid-century suburban neighborhood. The camera moves past a distinctive pink and white motel with a curved entrance and palm trees, showcasing classic American roadside architecture. Mid-century cars, including a light blue convertible and a white station wagon, are parked along the street. The footage features the characteristic grain and color saturation of 1950s Super 8 film, offering a nostalgic glimpse into postwar Florida life.

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: 123381820

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.

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Florida travel, roadside architecture, suburban driving, or postwar neighborhood atmosphere in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The frames show mid-century cars, low-rise motel or apartment architecture, palm trees, and pastel exterior colors consistent with the supplied 1955 Dade County metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot moving-car viewpoint, recording streetside buildings and parked cars without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pink-and-white low-rise building, palm trees, parked mid-century cars, a motel sign, a small roadside structure, curbside pavement, and bright sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, saturated color, gate-edge darkness, dust specks, and handheld motion typical of mid-century home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short travel insert, location transition, roadside cutaway, or memory beat for 1950s Florida.
Historical context: The clip visually suggests postwar automobile travel and roadside lodging culture in a warm coastal suburb, based on visible cars, palms, and motel-like architecture.
Research note: No people are visible, but signage, exterior buildings, and possible business identity should still be reviewed separately from copyright and footage licensing.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1950s Dade County Florida 8mm driving footage, Miami-area roadside motel, vintage cars, palm-lined street, and home movie travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Dade County or Florida 1955 material, then broader mid-century motel, driving, and roadside architecture footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 Dade County home-movie frame showing a pink-and-white low-rise building, palms, and curbside street view. — Passing a pink-and-white low-rise building lined with palm trees.

1955 Dade County street view with a light blue convertible, nearby parked cars, palms, and a pink-and-white building. — A light blue convertible and other cars parked beside a palm-lined building.

1955 Dade County frame with a white station wagon, motel sign, palms, and low roadside buildings. — A white station wagon moves past a motel sign and palm-lined roadside buildings.

1955 Dade County street frame showing a dark sedan, motel sign, small white roadside structure, and palm trees. — A dark sedan passes a small roadside structure near a motel sign.

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