Dade County Florida-1955: A Big House At The Side Of Waterlake

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

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A Big House At The Side Of Waterlake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil waterfront scene in Dade County, Florida. The footage shows a large, modern-style house nestled among palm trees along a calm waterway, with a small dock extending into the water. The overcast sky and soft, muted colors evoke a nostalgic mid-century atmosphere, with visible film grain and slight blurriness characteristic of Super 8 home movies. The camera remains mostly static, offering a peaceful glimpse of mid-century Florida residential life.

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: 123384311

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 residential waterfront B-roll in documentaries, museum programs, or period inserts about suburban leisure and coastal living.
Period detail: The low modern house, palm-lined shoreline, dock posts, and muted 8mm color may show mid-century residential development in Dade County.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot home-movie viewpoint, quietly observing a waterfront house from across the water without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a canal or lake edge, a large low house, palm trees, dock pilings, lawn, cloudy sky, and dark film frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing give the footage a physical 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm cutaway, establishing insert, memory beat, or transition within a sequence about 1950s Florida housing or travel.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for palm-lined waterfront residential life in Dade County without showing identifiable residents or public activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are visible or indicated, but copyright status and any property-identification concerns should be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1955 Dade County Florida 8mm home movie, mid-century waterfront house, palm trees, dock, canal, and residential shoreline.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1955 Dade County footage, then broader Florida waterfront homes and travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 Dade County home-movie frame showing a low waterfront house behind palm trees under a cloudy sky. — A palm-lined waterfront residence appears in soft focus behind the dark edges of the 8mm frame.

1955 Dade County frame with a modern low house, palms, lawn, and overcast sky viewed from a fixed home-movie angle. — The camera holds on a low waterfront house set behind a lawn and several palm trees.

1955 Dade County waterfront view showing a low house, palm trees, dock posts, seawall, and calm canal or lake water. — Dock pilings and a seawall sit in front of the palm-lined residence beside calm water.

1955 Dade County home-movie frame of a palm-lined waterfront house with white dock posts and a seawall across blue water. — The final frame centers the waterfront residence, white dock posts, palms, and canal or lake surface.

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