Las Vegas USA-1958: Vintage 1950s Motel With Heated Pool Sign

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

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Vintage 1950s Motel With Heated Pool Sign — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a classic mid-century motel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The footage shows a long, single-story building with a flat roof and rows of doors, typical of 1950s roadside architecture. A prominent sign advertises a heated pool for $5 for two people, with additional services like baby sitters and cribs. A white vintage car is parked in front, and the scene is framed by the dark borders of a film projector, giving it an authentic, nostalgic feel. The color palette is faded, with muted tones and slight film grain, evoking a sense of Americana and mid-century travel.

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: 123609659

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Las Vegas roadside motel footage for documentary or educational edits about mid-century travel, tourism, and American motor-court architecture.
Period detail: The flat-roof motel frontage, pole sign advertising a heated pool, and parked mid-century car support a late-1950s roadside travel setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective from across a street or parking area, briefly panning past the motel sign and building as travel scenery.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a long motel facade, rows of doors and windows, a heated-pool sign, a white vintage car, low landscaping, pavement, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, faded color, bright exposure, gate edges, and mild handheld instability that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: Use as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat establishing 1950s Las Vegas lodging and roadside travel atmosphere.
Historical context: The footage shows motel amenities and auto-oriented travel architecture associated with postwar leisure tourism, without identifying the motel by name from the frames alone.
Research note: Visible signage and possible motel branding require rights review; no people are flagged, but copyright, trademark, and property considerations should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1958 Las Vegas motel, vintage 8mm roadside motel, heated pool sign, mid-century travel lodging, and 1950s Nevada home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Las Vegas 1958 clips, then broader 1950s motel, road trip, pool sign, and roadside architecture footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Las Vegas home-movie frame showing a low motel facade, walkway doors, pavement, and a parked white mid-century car. — A low roadside motel facade appears across a bright paved foreground, with a white vintage car parked near the building.

1958 Las Vegas frame with a motel pole sign advertising a heated pool, set before a low roadside lodging building and parked car. — A pole sign promoting a heated pool stands in front of the motel facade, with a car visible to the right.

Soft 8mm frame from Las Vegas in 1958 showing a cropped motel sign, low lodging frontage, and open paved foreground. — The camera passes a partly cropped motel sign while the long building remains visible behind it.

Wide 1958 Las Vegas home-movie view of a single-story motel frontage with shrubs, pavement, and soft faded color. — A wider view shows the motel stretching across the frame, with small shrubs and open pavement in the foreground.

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