Albany New York-1955: Person Enters Car Parked In Front Of A Garage; A Car

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Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationAlbany, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Person Enters Car Parked In Front Of A Garage; A Car — Clip Details

A person in a red jacket enters a light blue vintage car parked in front of a garage in Albany, New York, in 1955. The scene captures a quiet suburban moment with a classic American automobile, a white house, and a tall evergreen tree. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows the car reversing slowly down the driveway as the person closes the door. The image has a soft, nostalgic quality with natural lighting and visible film grain, evoking mid-century Americana.

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: 123432863

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1956 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Albany, New York, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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 Albany-area home-movie requests needing a brief suburban driveway and automobile moment for documentary or educational editing.
Period detail: The rounded light blue sedan, detached garage, and residential driveway may show mid-1950s American suburban transportation and domestic surroundings.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged moment of a person entering a parked car and the car backing away from a home driveway.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a light blue vintage car, a person in red, a garage, white house siding, evergreen shrubs, grass, curb, and road.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing that give the scene physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, transition, or memory beat for mid-century domestic life, car travel, or neighborhood routines.
Historical context: The scene suggests ordinary residential mobility, with a car kept at a home garage and a person preparing to leave the driveway.
Research note: A person and residential exterior are visible, so likeness and property review may be needed separate from any film copyright assessment.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s Albany home movie driveway, vintage car leaving garage, suburban New York family footage, and 8mm automobile scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Albany or 1956 residential footage, then broader 1950s car and home-life material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A person in red stands by a light blue car near a garage in Albany-area 1950s home-movie footage. — A person stands beside a light blue car parked near a residential garage.

The light blue vintage car remains beside the garage, with the residential road and shrubs visible behind it. — The car sits angled near the garage as the driveway and road remain in view.

The light blue vintage car appears to reverse from the garage area along a residential driveway in Albany. — The car begins backing away from the garage along the driveway.

The car is farther from the garage, backing toward the road in a 1950s Albany residential scene. — The car continues reversing down the driveway toward the street.

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