Las Vegas USA-1958: Vintage 8mm Film Showing Mid-Century Motel Building

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

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Vintage 8mm Film Showing Mid-Century Motel Building — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a low-angle view of a mid-century motel building in Las Vegas, USA. The two-story structure features a long, repeating facade with balconies and a central staircase. A classic white car is parked in the lot, and the footage shows slight camera movement as it pans across the building. The image is grainy with soft focus and film artifacts, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. The scene evokes a nostalgic, mid-20th century American roadside atmosphere.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123609536

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 requests needing 1950s Las Vegas roadside lodging exteriors for documentary, museum, education, or editorial context.
Period detail: The clip shows a low, two-story motel-style building with exterior walkways, stairs, simple facade lines, and a light-colored parked car consistent with mid-century travel scenes.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot viewpoint, panning loosely across the motel exterior from the parking area rather than presenting a staged architectural record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a two-story motel block, exterior balcony railings, stairways, a paved lot, parked car, low landscaping, windows, and soft sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, pale exposure, visible grain, gate edges, dust marks, and slight handheld movement that give it home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing cutaway, travel-memory insert, motel transition, or period atmosphere beat within a Las Vegas or roadside sequence.
Historical context: The view reflects postwar American road-travel architecture through its parking-lot frontage, repeated room bays, exterior access, and modest motel scale.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and property-status considerations should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1958 Las Vegas motel exterior, vintage 8mm roadside lodging, mid-century motel building, and 1950s American travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Las Vegas footage, then broader 1950s motel, roadside travel, and home-movie exteriors.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Las Vegas home-movie frame showing a two-story motel-style building with exterior walkway, stairs, windows, and pale sky. — Two-story motel exterior seen from the parking lot in soft 8mm focus.

1958 Las Vegas motel exterior with repeating second-floor walkway, exterior stairs, paved lot, and a light-colored car near the right edge. — Motel frontage with stairs and parked car visible near the right side.

1958 Las Vegas frame showing the motel corner, exterior stairway, second-floor walkway, windows, and a light-colored parked car. — The pan reaches the motel corner with stairs and car more prominent.

1958 Las Vegas home-movie frame of a motel side section with upper balcony, rectangular windows, low landscaping, and open paved foreground. — Side section of the motel with windows and low landscaping in the foreground.

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