Dade County Florida-1955: Mid-Century Cars Parked at Motel with Palm Trees

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

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Mid-Century Cars Parked at Motel with Palm Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched motel parking lot in Dade County, Florida. Classic American automobiles from the mid-1950s are parked in front of a two-story motel building with a distinctive mid-century design. Palm trees sway gently in the breeze, reinforcing the tropical Florida setting. The footage exhibits the characteristic soft focus, color shifts, and film grain of Super 8 home movies from the era, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century roadside travel and leisure.

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: 123382825

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Florida travel, roadside lodging, and mid-century automobile cutaways in documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: Visible era clues include rounded mid-1950s cars, a low two-story motel-like building, palm trees, and warm tropical daylight.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot home-movie viewpoint, lingering on parked cars and lodging rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: The frames show parked classic cars, palm trees, a two-story building, bright pavement, exterior windows, and soft tropical light.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, pink color shift, gate edges, light grain, and slight handheld framing as archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, roadside cutaway, or memory beat for 1950s Florida.
Historical context: The scene reflects mid-century car travel and motel-style lodging in a subtropical Florida setting without showing identifiable people.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but copyright, location identification, and property-context review should remain separate from likeness clearance.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1950s Dade County Florida home movie, vintage motel parking lot, palm trees, and classic cars on 8mm film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1955 Dade County footage, then broader 1950s Florida travel and roadside car scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 Dade County, Florida home-movie frame showing classic cars parked outside a two-story tropical lodging building. — Classic cars parked near a low mid-century building in bright Florida light.

Soft 8mm frame from 1955 Dade County showing a tropical parking area with classic cars and palm-lined lodging. — Palm trees and rounded mid-century cars frame a roadside lodging exterior.

1955 Florida home-movie frame with palm trees, parked cars, and a pale two-story motel-like exterior. — A tropical parking lot scene with palms, parked cars, and mid-century lodging.

1955 Dade County frame showing a blue classic car in the foreground with palm trees and lodging exterior behind. — A blue mid-century car sits in the foreground of a palm-lined lodging scene.

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