Las Vegas USA-1958: Lady Closing Car Door At Motel

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

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Lady Closing Car Door At Motel — Clip Details

A woman in a light-colored blouse and dark skirt exits a white 1950s American automobile with wood paneling, closing the door as she leaves a mid-century motel. The scene, shot on 8mm film in 1958, captures a moment of classic American travel with the car parked in front of a two-story motel building. The footage shows the woman stepping away, the car's distinctive tail fins and chrome details visible, and other vintage cars in the lot. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film evokes a nostalgic, authentic home movie feel.

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: 123609412

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: 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 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Las Vegas travel, motel arrival, and mid-century American road-trip sequences needing authentic 8mm home-movie material.
Period detail: Tail fins, chrome trim, whitewall tires, and a two-story exterior-corridor motel support a late-1950s roadside travel setting.
Home-movie behavior: The woman appears to be captured casually while leaving the car, giving the clip an unstaged family-travel perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white finned car, open passenger door, woman at the door, motel balconies, walkway railings, parked cars, and bright pavement.
Film character: The scan has soft focus, faded color, visible grain, and slight handheld instability consistent with small-gauge home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short arrival insert, motel cutaway, road-trip transition, or memory beat in a 1950s travel sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows automobile-centered motel travel in Las Vegas, with parking directly outside guest rooms and exterior corridors.
Research note: People are visible and likeness review may be needed; no clear logos are visible, but copyright, property, and location rights should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1958 Las Vegas motel footage, 1950s American car at motel, woman closing car door, and 8mm road-trip home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1958 Las Vegas travel material, then with 1950s motel, parking-lot, and automobile footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1958 Las Vegas footage, a woman sits by the open door of a white finned car parked outside a two-story motel. — Woman at the open car door in a motel parking area.

White late-1950s car with tail fins and an open door sits outside a Las Vegas motel corridor. — Open car door beside a two-story motel exterior.

A white 1950s automobile fills the foreground outside a Las Vegas motel, with more parked cars along the lot. — Vintage car parked outside motel rooms and railings.

Rear view of a white finned car in a Las Vegas motel parking lot, with exterior corridors and other cars in view. — Motel parking lot with white finned car and nearby vehicles.

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