Dade County Florida-1955: A Lady Walking Near The Ocean Tropicana Motel

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

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A Lady Walking Near The Ocean Tropicana Motel — Clip Details

DADE COUNTY FLORIDA-1955: A woman in a light-colored dress walks along a sidewalk in front of the Ocean Tropicana Motel, a mid-century establishment with stone walls and green trim. The 8mm film captures her movement past the entrance and a set of stairs, with vintage cars parked nearby. The footage exhibits the characteristic grain, soft focus, and faded color palette of a 1950s home movie, evoking a nostalgic sense of a classic American roadside stop.

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: 123382774

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Florida travel, roadside motel, Miami-area tourism, or home-movie cutaways in documentary and editorial productions.
Period detail: The motel signage, stone facade, green trim, exterior stairs, and mid-century cars support the 1955 Dade County setting in the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: A woman walks casually along the motel sidewalk while the handheld camera observes from a visitor or family-travel perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the Ocean Tropicana Motel exterior, entrance, stairs, sidewalk, shrubs, signage, parked cars, and a woman in a light dress.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, faded color, mild gate edges, dust specks, and handheld framing typical of mid-century home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, travel transition, motel-establishing cutaway, or memory beat for 1950s Florida road trips.
Historical context: The clip visually places a traveler outside a mid-century Florida motel, suggesting everyday leisure travel without asserting a specific trip purpose.
Research note: People and motel branding are visible, so likeness, trademark, and location identification should be reviewed separately from film copyright.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1955 Dade County motel footage, 1950s Florida roadside travel, Ocean Tropicana Motel, vintage 8mm hotel exterior, and woman walking.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Dade County or 1955 Florida footage, then broader 1950s motel and road-travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1955 Dade County footage, a woman in a light dress walks near the Ocean Tropicana Motel entrance and front windows. — A woman passes the Ocean Tropicana Motel entrance, with signage and landscaping visible.

The woman continues along the sidewalk beside exterior stairs at the Ocean Tropicana Motel in Dade County, Florida. — The walker moves past the motel's exterior stairway and planted front edge.

A soft 8mm view shows the motel corner, partial Ocean Tropicana signage, front windows, and mid-century cars near the property. — The camera shifts toward the motel corner and nearby parked cars.

The final frame looks across a motel-side parking area with vintage cars, grass, a road edge, and a distant sign in 1950s Dade County footage. — Vintage cars sit near the motel as the view opens toward the roadside area.

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