Las Vegas Nevada-1957: The Largest Building In The Roadside Nearby Car Parking

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationLas Vegas, Nevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 Nevada

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The Largest Building In The Roadside Nearby Car Parking — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1957, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched scene in Las Vegas, Nevada. A large, modernist building with a prominent vertical sign stands beside a parking lot filled with classic American automobiles from the era. The footage, slightly grainy and hazy, shows people walking near the cars, evoking a sense of mid-century Americana. The camera pans across the scene, capturing the architectural style and bustling atmosphere of a roadside hotel or commercial complex during a warm day.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123476873

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1569 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: memorial day,rita's film
Reel-level year note: 1957
Reel-level location note: las vegas
Date: 1957 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: Las Vegas, Nevada, 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 Las Vegas roadside footage suited for documentary inserts about postwar travel, car culture, hotel architecture, or city growth seen through home-movie material.
Period detail: The frames show mid-century automobiles, a broad modernist building, and a vertical roadside sign that may indicate a hotel or commercial complex in 1957 Las Vegas.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective from near parked cars, with brief handheld views of people moving through a roadside setting rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large multi-story building, vertical sign lettering, parked classic cars, a sidewalk or lot edge, pedestrians, bright haze, and passing camera movement.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, light haze, exposure variation, and handheld framing that give the scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, transitional memory beat, or establishing insert for mid-century Las Vegas travel and roadside parking scenes.
Historical context: The view suggests a car-oriented commercial or lodging area, with automobiles and pedestrians foregrounding everyday visitor movement in 1950s Las Vegas.
Research note: People and sign lettering are visible, so likeness, trademark, and location identification should be reviewed separately from any film copyright question.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1957 Las Vegas 8mm footage, mid-century roadside hotel parking lot, vintage Nevada cars, and home movie modernist building.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then other Las Vegas 1957 scenes, then broader 1950s roadside travel, hotels, parking lots, and classic car footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Las Vegas home-movie frame showing a large modernist building and parked classic cars seen through soft 8mm haze. — A broad building rises behind parked cars at the edge of a roadside lot.

1957 Las Vegas frame with a multi-story building facade and roadside structures partially obscured by a dark vertical divider. — The camera passes a dark divider while showing a tall building facade beyond it.

1957 Las Vegas 8mm view of a vertical sign near a large building, with classic cars parked along the roadside. — A vertical sign and parked cars frame the base of a large roadside building.

1957 Las Vegas frame showing a pedestrian by a parking area, classic cars, and a large roadside building in soft focus. — A person stands near parked cars as the camera looks across the lot toward a large building.

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