Dade County Florida-1955: Passing By Houses And Palm Trees On Waterway On A

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

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Passing By Houses And Palm Trees On Waterway On A — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil waterway in Dade County, Florida, with a series of white Mediterranean-style houses lining the shore. Palm trees sway gently in the breeze, their fronds blurred by the camera's movement as the view glides past. The footage, shot from a boat or dock, shows a calm waterway under an overcast sky, with classic mid-century architecture and lush tropical landscaping. The film exhibits natural grain, slight motion blur, and the characteristic look of a 1950s home movie, evoking a nostalgic sense of Florida's mid-century coastal 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: 123385152

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Florida home-movie requests needing a waterside residential pass-by, coastal neighborhood cutaway, or mid-century Miami-area atmosphere.
Period detail: White stucco houses, red tile roofs, low seawalls, docks, and mature palms may show mid-century waterfront residential development in Dade County.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot or family-travel perspective, gliding past shoreline homes from a moving boat without staged action or posed subjects.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, waterfront houses, palm trees, seawalls, small docks, overcast sky, shrubs, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight gate weave, muted color, and motion blur from the moving camera as part of its home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief establishing insert, transition across a Florida waterway, neighborhood cutaway, or quiet memory beat.
Historical context: The footage visually situates domestic waterfront living and tropical landscaping in 1950s Dade County without identifying a specific neighborhood or landmark.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but waterfront residence exteriors and possible private property context should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1955 Dade County 8mm waterway footage, Florida waterfront homes, Miami-area palm trees, and mid-century residential shoreline views.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1955 Dade County waterfront material, then broader Florida home-movie coastal scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 Dade County 8mm frame showing white waterfront houses, arched openings, palms, and a low seawall beside calm water. — White Mediterranean-style houses and palms line the waterway as the camera passes by.

1955 Dade County waterfront view with palms, white houses, a seawall, and a small dock seen from a moving camera. — The moving view passes palm trees and low waterfront homes behind a seawall.

Dade County home-movie frame from 1955 showing a two-story waterfront residence, palms, seawall, and dock structure. — A two-story house and palms slide past behind the seawall and dock structure.

1955 Dade County 8mm frame with waterfront homes, palms, low seawall, dock structure, and rippled water in the foreground. — Waterfront houses and palms continue along the shore as the shot reaches the end of the pass-by.

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