Dade County Florida-1955: Waterfront Building with Tower and Palm Trees

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

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Waterfront Building with Tower and Palm Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures a serene waterfront scene in Dade County, Florida. The clip shows a large, elegant building with yellow awnings nestled among lush palm trees and greenery along a calm waterway. A white tower rises in the background, adding to the tropical architectural charm. The footage, viewed through a film frame border, exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic mid-century Florida atmosphere. The camera moves slowly along the water, offering a peaceful glimpse of 1950s residential life by the bay.

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: 123384760

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: 1950s Dade County waterfront footage for documentary inserts about mid-century Florida housing, waterways, or tropical urban development.
Period detail: The yellow awnings, stucco-like waterfront architecture, palms, and boat-side viewpoint may show mid-century South Florida residential or resort-style design.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel from across the water, observing an elegant shoreline building without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, a seawall, white posts, palm trees, dense greenery, yellow awnings, arched windows, and a towered building.
Film character: The 8mm footage shows soft focus, saturated color, gate edges, mild weave, and grain that give the waterfront view a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use this as a short cutaway, location-establishing insert, or quiet transition within sequences about 1950s Florida waterfront life.
Historical context: The scene documents a manicured waterfront setting in Dade County, with tropical landscaping and architecture suggesting affluent shoreline development.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but the identifiable waterfront building and property setting may still require copyright, property, or location review.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1955 Dade County waterfront 8mm, vintage Miami-area bayfront buildings, Florida palm trees home movie, and mid-century shoreline housing.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1955 Dade County waterfront clips, then broader Florida palm-lined architecture or bayfront home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 Dade County waterfront view of a large building with yellow awnings, palms, a tower, seawall, and calm water in the foreground. — A towered waterfront building stands behind palms and yellow awnings along a Dade County waterway.

1955 Dade County shoreline frame showing palms, a towered building, yellow awnings, arched windows, and a seawall beside still water. — Palm trees frame a towered building with yellow awnings along the water's edge.

1955 Dade County waterfront building partly screened by trees, with yellow awnings, white posts, a seawall, and water in the foreground. — Trees and palms partly obscure a waterfront building with yellow awnings behind a low seawall.

1955 Dade County waterfront scene with a tree-covered building, yellow awnings, palms, white posts, seawall, and calm water reflections. — A tree-covered waterfront property with palms and yellow awnings sits behind white posts and calm water.

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