Dade County Florida-1955: Hitting The Open Road Staying In Motels Driving By

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

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Hitting The Open Road Staying In Motels Driving By — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures a road trip through Dade County, Florida. The footage shows a moving vehicle passing open fields, a distant radio tower, and rural farm buildings under a cloudy sky. The journey continues to a classic mid-century motel with a sign reading 'ICANA MOTEL,' where two people stand near the entrance. The film exhibits natural grain, slight motion blur, and faded colors typical of Super 8 home movies from the era. This archival clip evokes Americana nostalgia and is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or historical storytelling.

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: 123382712

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 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: 1950s Dade County, Florida home-movie road footage for productions needing travel, roadside motel, rural outskirts, or mid-century driving context.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century roadside development, open fields, farm structures, older cars, and a motel facade with partial signage reading "ICANA MOTEL."
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a passenger-window road-trip perspective, ending with two adults standing casually near a motel entrance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open grass fields, cloudy sky, long farm buildings, a radio tower, motel frontage, doorway figures, outdoor chairs, and parked cars.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, faded color, visible grain, mild gate borders, and motion blur consistent with handheld or moving-vehicle home-movie filming.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a short travel insert, motel arrival cutaway, rural-to-roadside transition, or memory beat within a 1950s Florida sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually suggests roadside travel and lodging on the edge of developed areas, without establishing a specific route or named motel beyond the partial sign.
Research note: People and a partial motel sign are visible, so likeness, trademark, and property-context review may be needed separate from footage copyright status.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1950s Florida road trip 8mm, Dade County motel home movie, mid-century roadside lodging, rural driving footage, and vintage motel exterior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1955 Dade County travel material, then broader 1950s Florida roads, motels, and rural roadside scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 Dade County road-trip footage showing open grassland, distant trees, cloudy sky, and dark 8mm frame borders. — Open roadside field viewed through the moving home-movie camera.

A long rural building appears beside open ground in Dade County, Florida, filmed in soft, faded 1950s 8mm color. — Rural roadside building passing by the camera.

Rural Dade County scene with low farm structures, a tall tower, open ground, and cloud cover in a moving 8mm shot. — Farm structures and tower seen from the road.

1955 Florida motel stop showing a partial "ICANA MOTEL" sign, two adults at the entrance, outdoor chairs, shrubs, and cars. — Two adults stand at a motel entrance beneath a partial sign.

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