Dade County Florida-1955: External View Of Hotel With Beautiful Architecture And Classic Cars

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

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External View Of Hotel With Beautiful Architecture And... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures an external view of a mid-century hotel in Dade County, Florida. The footage shows a pastel-colored building with distinctive architectural details, including a staircase and awnings, surrounded by lush tropical plants and parked classic automobiles. The warm, faded color palette and soft focus evoke a nostalgic, sun-drenched atmosphere typical of 1950s American travel and leisure. The camera pans slightly, offering a glimpse of the hotel's entrance and surrounding grounds, preserving a moment of mid-century Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 123382861

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: 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: Supports requests for 1950s Florida travel, roadside lodging, and mid-century hotel exterior cutaways for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: Visible clues include pastel hotel architecture, exterior stairways, awnings, tropical plantings, and parked mid-century automobiles consistent with the 1955 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, briefly observing the hotel entrance and grounds from outside rather than staging a formal architectural view.
What appears in frame: The frames show a hotel facade, entrance doors, exterior stairs, awnings, shrubs, palm-like plants, windows, and parked cars.
Film character: Soft focus, faded color, mild grain, exposure variation, and contact-print framing give the footage a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel transition, lodging cutaway, or memory beat in a mid-century Florida sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually situates leisure travel around a landscaped hotel exterior in Dade County without proving the hotel's identity or broader social context.
Research note: A hotel sign is visible but not clearly identified, so copyright, trademark, property, and location identification should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1955 8mm Florida hotel exterior, Dade County travel home movie, mid-century lodging facade, and vintage cars outside hotel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1955 Dade County exteriors, then broader Florida travel, hotels, gardens, and classic-car street scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 Dade County hotel exterior seen through 8mm home-movie framing, with tropical plantings, upper windows, stairs, and parked cars. — Hotel grounds with foliage, exterior stairs, windows, and cars parked near the building.

1955 Dade County hotel entrance area with a partially readable sign, awning, exterior stairway, landscaped shrubs, and nearby parked cars. — Entrance side of the hotel with awning, stairs, sign lettering, shrubs, and cars.

Soft 8mm view of a Dade County hotel facade in 1955, showing entrance doors, partial sign lettering, windows, landscaping, and a parked car. — Closer exterior view of the hotel entrance with sign, windows, shrubs, and parked automobile.

Overexposed 1955 Dade County hotel exterior frame with partial sign lettering, entrance edge, windows, shrubs, and a parked car near the building. — Bright final frame of the hotel exterior, with sign lettering, entrance edge, shrubs, and car.

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