Las Vegas USA-1958: Classic Cars Parked Outside Retro Motel

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

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Classic Cars Parked Outside Retro Motel — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a classic mid-century motel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The two-story building features a distinctive retro design with balconies and large windows, framed by palm trees. A row of pristine white and pastel-colored 1950s American automobiles are parked in the lot, showcasing the era's iconic styling. The footage, viewed through the characteristic frame of a Super 8 projector, exhibits natural film grain and a slightly faded color palette, evoking a nostalgic sense of mid-century Americana and roadside travel. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic projects.

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: 123609639

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: 1950s Las Vegas roadside-travel footage for documentary inserts about motels, car culture, tourism, or mid-century American streetscapes.
Period detail: The parked sedans, low two-story motel facade, exterior corridors, broad windows, and palm landscaping support a late-1950s roadside setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot, observational feel, looking across a parking lot rather than staging the motel or cars for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a motel exterior, rows of parked 1950s cars, palm trees, exterior walkways, large windows, asphalt parking area, and dark film gate borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, faded color, visible grain, gate edges, and slight exposure variation that read as home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel-memory cutaway, motel transition, or visual beat for 1950s Las Vegas tourism.
Historical context: The view places motel lodging and automobile travel together, reflecting the visual language of mid-century American roadside leisure without identifying the property.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location or property concerns for their use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Las Vegas home movie, 8mm motel exterior, 1950s parked cars, vintage roadside travel, and mid-century Nevada tourism.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Las Vegas material, then broader 1950s motel, automobile, and roadside-travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Las Vegas 8mm frame showing a low motel exterior, palm trees, and several parked mid-century cars. — Parked cars line the lot outside a two-story motel in Las Vegas.

1958 Las Vegas home-movie frame of a motel parking lot with pale 1950s cars and palm trees near the entrance. — A row of light-colored cars sits in front of the motel facade.

Las Vegas motel exterior in 1958, seen across a parking area with classic cars and palm trees in soft 8mm color. — The camera looks across the parking lot toward the motel and cars.

1958 Las Vegas 8mm frame with a motel exterior, palm trees, and parked 1950s cars viewed through dark film borders. — Dark film borders frame the motel parking lot and mid-century cars.

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