Las Vegas Nevada-1957: View Of Windmill And Trees On A Cloudy Day

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

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View Of Windmill And Trees On A Cloudy Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1957, this vintage home movie captures a hazy, overcast day in Las Vegas, Nevada. The footage features a prominent white windmill structure, likely part of a roadside motel or commercial landmark, with palm trees and low-slung buildings in the foreground. The image quality is grainy and slightly faded, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era, with visible film scratches and soft focus. The scene evokes a nostalgic mid-century American roadside atmosphere, with the windmill standing as a distinctive architectural feature against a cloudy sky.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 123477013

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: 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Helps document mid-1950s Las Vegas roadside architecture for documentary inserts, location research, or period atmosphere cutaways.
Period detail: The visible windmill-style tower, palm trees, low buildings, and parked cars may show a mid-century roadside motel or commercial landmark in Las Vegas.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, holding briefly on a distinctive roadside structure from a passing or nearby vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white windmill-style tower, palm trees, low rooflines, parked cars, cloudy sky, soft roadside foreground, and film frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, muted color, visible grain, slight fading, and contact-sheet frame edges that preserve the home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, transition, or memory beat for 1950s Las Vegas travel and roadside imagery.
Historical context: The scene suggests the automobile-era visual landscape of Las Vegas, with themed architecture and palms seen through a casual home-movie lens.
Research note: Brand or landmark identification is uncertain, so copyright, trademark, and location/property considerations should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1950s Las Vegas 8mm roadside windmill, vintage motel landmark, cloudy Nevada travel footage, and home movie palms.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1957 Las Vegas footage, then broader mid-century roadside or motel architecture scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Las Vegas home-movie frame showing a hazy windmill-style roadside structure with palm trees and low rooflines. — A windmill-style tower and palms appear through soft 8mm haze.

1957 Las Vegas frame with a white tower, palms, low roofline, and a dark roadside sign or architectural feature. — The tower remains centered as palms and a dark sign-like form appear nearby.

1957 Las Vegas home-movie frame showing the windmill-style tower, roadside palms, low structures, and partially visible cars. — The roadside landmark is partly framed by palms and passing or parked cars.

1957 Las Vegas frame with the tower and dark roadside feature partly obscured by a blurred foreground shape. — A blurred foreground edge partially covers the roadside tower and sign-like feature.

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