Dade County Florida-1955: Windy Palm Trees Outside Hotel Tropicana Person Waving

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

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Windy Palm Trees Outside Hotel Tropicana Person Waving — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched scene outside the Hotel Tropicana in Dade County, Florida. A man in a light-colored shirt and dark pants stands on the sidewalk, waving toward the camera. The hotel’s mid-century architecture features a prominent sign, palm trees, and tropical landscaping. Classic cars are parked nearby, and the footage exhibits the soft focus, pinkish color cast, and film grain characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. The scene evokes a nostalgic, leisurely vacation atmosphere.

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: 123382879

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: Useful for 1950s Florida travel, vacation, hotel exterior, and mid-century leisure sequences needing real 8mm home-movie atmosphere.
Period detail: The hotel sign, low-rise modern facade, palm landscaping, roadside lawn, and visible parked cars support a mid-1950s South Florida resort setting.
Home-movie behavior: A man stands outside the hotel and waves toward the camera, giving the scene an informal visitor-filmed greeting rather than staged coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the Hotel Tropicana sign, a man waving, palm trees, trimmed hedges, sidewalk, lawn stones, parked cars, and a pale hotel facade.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm focus, pink color fading, mild gate edges, handheld framing, and grain that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief vacation insert, hotel establishing cutaway, Florida travel transition, or personal memory beat.
Historical context: The footage shows mid-century hotel tourism through a family camera, with architecture, landscaping, dress, and roadside details as visual context.
Research note: A visible adult face and hotel branding/signage may require likeness and trademark review; copyright status is separate from those concerns.
Research search match: Searches such as 1950s Florida hotel exterior, Dade County vacation home movie, Hotel Tropicana sign, palm trees, and man waving may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Dade County or Florida 1955 clips, then broader tropical hotel and vacation travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 Dade County home-movie frame showing a pale hotel exterior, palm trees, low shrubs, and a parked car in soft focus. — A wide, soft-focus view of the hotel exterior and tropical landscaping.

1955 Dade County frame of an adult man outside Hotel Tropicana, with the sign, palm trees, hedges, and hotel entrance visible. — A man stands in front of the Hotel Tropicana sign and landscaped entrance.

1955 Dade County home-movie frame showing an adult man outside Hotel Tropicana, with a visible sign, palm tree, hedges, and lawn. — The man remains outside the hotel as the camera holds on the sign and entrance.

1955 Dade County frame of the Hotel Tropicana exterior, showing the sign, palm landscaping, trimmed hedge, sidewalk, and a partial figure. — The hotel sign and roadside landscaping fill the final frame, with a figure partly visible at the right edge.

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