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Las Vegas USA-1958: Car Driving Slowly on Dusty Road

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  • Year1958
  • Decade1950s
  • LocationLas Vegas, Nevada, United States
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1958 · Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
  • StatusDirect License

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Car Driving Slowly on Dusty Road — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a slow drive through a flat, rural landscape from inside a classic car. The view from the passenger side shows a dusty road stretching into the distance, lined with utility poles under a hazy sky. The car's chrome hood ornament is visible in the foreground, and a bird briefly flies across the frame. The footage exhibits natural film grain and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, authentic mid-century American road trip experience.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details
InteriorSlow motion
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
123608568

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 1831 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note
1958-1959
Reel-level location note
las vegas,flagstaff
Date
1958 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

  • unique
  • car
  • plant
  • going
  • roadside
  • slowly
  • objects
  • LAS vegas USA
  • 1958
  • 1958 vintage car footage
  • 8mm home movie
  • rural road trip
  • vintage 8mm film
  • classic car drive
  • Americana nostalgia
  • 1950s road trip
  • vintage 8mm footage
  • roadside scenery
  • utility poles
  • dusty road
  • car hood ornament
  • vintage film grain
  • slow motion drive
  • 1950s Americana
  • archival 8mm
  • vintage car interior
  • 1958 home movie
  • retro travel footage
  • vintage road trip

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for requests needing 1950s Las Vegas-area road travel, rural roadside views, or mid-century car-passenger perspective in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail
The chrome hood ornament, narrow paved road, open scrubland, and wooden utility poles may show a mid-century roadside environment consistent with the 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior
The clip has the unstaged feel of a passenger filming from inside a moving car during a slow rural drive.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a paved roadside, car hood and chrome hood ornament, utility poles, flat scrubland, hazy sky, road shoulder, and brief bird movement.
Film character
The 8mm scan shows soft focus, natural grain, muted color, slight motion blur, and gate-edge contact-sheet texture typical of home-movie footage.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a travel insert, road-transition shot, memory beat, or quiet cutaway between Las Vegas-area archive scenes.
Historical context
The footage visually places a car traveler on an open roadside at the edge of a sparsely built desert landscape, without showing people or named landmarks.
Research note
No people are visible, but the car ornament may require brand review, and copyright clearance remains separate from likeness or property considerations.
Research search match
Likely matches searches for 1958 8mm Las Vegas road footage, vintage car passenger view, desert roadside utility poles, and mid-century home movie driving.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Las Vegas material, then broader vintage American road-trip or desert-driving footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Las Vegas-area home-movie frame looking from a moving car past a chrome hood ornament toward a flat roadside with utility poles.

A slow roadside drive seen over the car hood and ornament.

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Open Las Vegas-area roadside seen from a moving car, with sparse scrubland, utility poles, and a soft hazy sky.

The roadside opens into flat scrubland lined with utility poles.

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A moving-car view across low roadside vegetation and utility poles in the Las Vegas-area landscape described by the clip metadata.

The car passes a sparse roadside with poles and low brush.

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Passenger-view frame from a 1958 Las Vegas-area drive, showing the road ahead, car hood ornament, roadside poles, and a small bird in the sky.

The road stretches ahead as a bird crosses the hazy sky.

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