Dade County Florida-1955: Mediterranean House with Red Tile Roof Overlooking Waterfront

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

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Mediterranean House with Red Tile Roof Overlooking... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched waterfront scene in Dade County, Florida. A large white Mediterranean-style house with a red tile roof stands prominently, surrounded by lush green lawns and tall palm trees swaying gently. The property is bordered by a calm waterway with a wooden dock visible in the foreground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural color fading, and subtle grain, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American lifestyle. The camera appears to move slowly, offering a serene view of this tropical residential setting.

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: 123384670

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 establishing shots, especially documentary or museum segments needing mid-century tropical housing atmosphere.
Period detail: The white stucco walls, red tile roof, awnings, palms, and canal frontage may show mid-century South Florida residential design and landscaping.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot home-movie perspective from across the water, observing houses and palms without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white waterfront houses, red tile roofs, green and yellow awnings, palm trees, lawns, canal edge, dock posts, and soft sky.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, muted color, slight gate edge darkness, handheld framing, and visible grain that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, waterfront transition, residential cutaway, or memory beat for 1950s South Florida.
Historical context: The scene reflects a landscaped canal-side residential environment in Dade County, presented through casual home-movie observation rather than formal documentation.
Research note: No people, logos, or interiors are visible, but exterior private residences appear and property identification or copyright questions may need review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1955 8mm Dade County Florida waterfront house, Miami-area palm trees, Mediterranean-style residence, and vintage home movie canal view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then Dade County or 1955 Florida footage, then broader themes of mid-century waterfront homes and palms.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 Dade County home-movie frame showing a white Mediterranean-style house, palms, green lawn, and canal frontage. — White stucco waterfront house with palms and lawn viewed from across the canal.

1955 Dade County frame of a white waterfront residence with palms, awning, dock posts, and a canal in front. — Canal-side residence with palm trees, awning, and dock posts along the waterfront.

1955 Dade County home-movie frame showing a low white waterfront building with yellow awnings behind tall palms. — Low white building with yellow awnings seen through tall palms near the water.

1955 Dade County frame showing a white canal-side building with yellow awnings, red tile roof, and clustered palms. — White canal-side building with yellow awnings and palm trees in a tropical residential setting.

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