Dade County Florida-1955: Man Walking Near Ocean Tropicana Hotel With Classic Cars

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

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Man Walking Near Ocean Tropicana Hotel With Classic Cars — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched street scene in Dade County, Florida. Classic American automobiles from the mid-1950s are parked along a palm-lined road in front of a mid-century motel with a faded sign reading 'Ocean Tropicana Hotel'. A man in period attire walks past the building, adding life to the nostalgic, slightly faded footage. The warm, pinkish color cast and film grain evoke a strong sense of retro Americana and 1950s leisure travel.

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: 123382981

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: 1950s Dade County home-movie footage for productions needing a brief Florida motel street insert with mid-century cars and a passerby.
Period detail: The parked rounded automobiles, low motel facade, palm plantings and faded Ocean Tropicana Hotel sign support a mid-1950s leisure-travel setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes an ordinary street moment as a man walks near the motel entrance and parked cars, giving the scene an unstaged visitor-shot quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the motel frontage, Ocean Tropicana Hotel lettering, classic parked cars, a sidewalk, landscaped beds, palms, a streetlight and one adult man.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, pink color fade, gate edges, handheld framing and light exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel transition, motel cutaway or memory beat for 1950s Florida road-trip material.
Historical context: The clip visually places motel lodging, automobile travel and warm-weather streetscape together without proving a specific event or named neighborhood.
Research note: Human likeness and visible hotel branding may require review; copyright status, trademark issues and any property or publicity permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1950s Florida motel home movie, Dade County classic cars, Ocean Tropicana Hotel sign, Miami area travel footage and 8mm street scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Florida travel shots, then other 1955 Dade County or Miami-area footage, then broader 1950s motel, road-trip and classic-car scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 Dade County 8mm frame showing the Ocean Tropicana Hotel area with a blurred car crossing the foreground and motel buildings behind. — A blurred car passes in front of the Ocean Tropicana Hotel frontage.

1955 Dade County street view of the Ocean Tropicana Hotel sign, entrance doors, low shrubs and flower beds along the motel facade. — Ocean Tropicana Hotel signage appears above the motel entrance and windows.

1955 Dade County home-movie frame with an adult man walking beside the Ocean Tropicana Hotel frontage and parked mid-century cars. — A man walks near the motel frontage as classic cars sit along the street.

Wide 1955 Dade County 8mm view of parked mid-century cars outside a motel, with a streetlight, palm trees and an adult man near the right edge. — Parked cars line the motel street while a man stands or walks near the building.

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