Dade County Florida-1955: Houses On Lake

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

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Houses On Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures a serene waterfront view of a large white Mediterranean-style house surrounded by tall palm trees in Dade County, Florida. The camera glides slowly along the water, revealing a dock and lush tropical landscaping under an overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and a slightly faded color palette characteristic of mid-century home movies. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into 1950s Florida residential life, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or historical storytelling.

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: 123384941

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 residential footage suited to documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences about Florida housing and coastal life.
Period detail: The white Mediterranean-style waterfront house, palm trees, dock, and soft 8mm color may show mid-century South Florida residential scenery.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel from across the water, observing the house and shoreline without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white waterfront house, arched openings, palm trees, dock posts, seawall, water, tropical shrubs, and an overcast sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, muted color, light grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld motion as part of its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, waterfront transition, residential cutaway, or reflective memory beat.
Historical context: The view documents a landscaped waterfront residence in Dade County, offering visual context for mid-century Florida domestic architecture and canalside living.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are evident, but the identifiable waterfront residence may still require property and copyright review for some uses.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1950s Dade County Florida waterfront home, Miami-area palm trees, Mediterranean house, 8mm home movie, or lakefront residence footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1955 Dade County waterfront material, then broader 1950s Florida residential or palm-lined shoreline scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 Dade County 8mm view of a white Mediterranean-style waterfront house behind palm trees and dock posts. — A white waterfront residence appears across the water, framed by palms and a low seawall.

Dade County waterfront residence seen from across the water, with palms and Mediterranean-style arches visible. — The camera passes a palm-lined shoreline with a white house and small dock structures.

Soft 8mm frame of a white Dade County waterfront house with palm trees, landscaping, dock posts, and water in front. — A closer pass shows the house, arched openings, palms, and shoreline details.

End frame of the 1955 Dade County waterfront view, showing the house, palms, dock edge, and canal or lake water. — The shoreline view continues with the residence partly framed by tall palms and a low dock edge.

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