Las Vegas USA-1958: Painted Desert Inn with Classic Cars and Vintage Sign

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationLas Vegas, Nevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Las Vegas

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Painted Desert Inn with Classic Cars and Vintage Sign — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures the Painted Desert Inn in a sun-drenched desert landscape. Classic American cars from the late 1950s, including a light blue sedan, are parked in front of the adobe-style building. A prominent sign advertises the inn, coffee shop, souvenirs, and ranger station. The footage shows a quiet moment with people near the vehicles under a clear blue sky, evoking a sense of mid-century Americana travel. The final frame shifts to a snowy, nighttime scene, suggesting a different location or time, possibly a winter stopover. The film exhibits natural grain and color shifts typical of 8mm home movies.

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: 123609295

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 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

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s U.S. road-travel edits needing visitor-shot exterior footage of a desert inn, parked cars, and roadside signage.
Period detail: The classic cars, adobe-style building, flagpole, and hand-painted Painted Desert Inn sign support a late-1950s roadside travel setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a visitor's viewpoint, holding on the inn approach, parked vehicles, and sign rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the Painted Desert Inn sign, adobe-style building, parked mid-century cars, gravel road, flagpole, desert planting, and a later snowy night view.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, color shifts, and handheld framing consistent with amateur home-movie travel footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, route-transition shot, travel-memory beat, or cutaway for mid-century American road tourism.
Historical context: The footage reflects automobile-based leisure travel and roadside service stops, with the inn sign advertising coffee, souvenirs, and a ranger station.
Research note: People and signage are visible, so likeness, trademark, location identification, and property-context review may still be needed apart from copyright status.
Research search match: Search matches include 1950s 8mm Painted Desert Inn footage, vintage desert inn sign, classic cars roadside stop, and American home movie travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then metadata-matched Las Vegas or 1958 travel material, then broader 1950s roadside tourism footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 home-movie frame of the Painted Desert Inn exterior with a sign, classic cars, desert landscaping, and adobe-style architecture. — Painted Desert Inn exterior with roadside sign and parked classic cars.

Visitor-shot 1958 frame looking toward the inn approach, with mid-century cars, a flagpole, and the desert building exterior. — Cars parked outside the desert inn entrance under a clear sky.

1958 travel footage frame from a moving or handheld viewpoint approaching parked cars near the Painted Desert Inn exterior. — Approach view toward the inn, parked cars, and flagpole.

Final frame shifts to a dark snowy roadside scene with vehicles and illuminated shapes, likely separate from the desert inn sequence. — Snow-covered nighttime scene appearing after the desert inn shots.

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