Las Vegas USA-1958: Vintage 8mm Footage of a Mid-Century Motel and Holiday Inn Sign

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

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Vintage 8mm Footage of a Mid-Century Motel and Holiday... — 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 low-slung, single-story building with a flat roof and a covered entrance, surrounded by manicured shrubs and a paved parking area. A white vintage car briefly passes in front. The final frame focuses on a blurred neon sign reading 'Holiday Inn,' confirming the establishment. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic frame edges of an 8mm home movie, evoking a nostalgic, authentic slice of 1950s Americana.

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: 123609667

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: Useful for 1950s Las Vegas travel, roadside lodging, motel, or mid-century Americana sequences needing authentic visitor-shot exterior footage.
Period detail: The low-slung motel architecture, striped awnings, manicured shrubs, and passing white sedan support a late-1950s roadside lodging setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera views the motel from across the street, preserving the casual perspective of a traveler recording a stop or drive-by location.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a motel facade, striped window awnings, covered entry posts, shrubs, paved street, parked or passing cars, and frame-edge borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, faded color, exposure drift, dust marks, and contact-sheet frame edges consistent with home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief exterior insert, travel transition, motel establishing cutaway, or memory beat in a Las Vegas road-trip sequence.
Historical context: The clip gives visual context for automobile-era lodging and leisure travel in Las Vegas without making claims beyond the visible motel exterior.
Research note: Brand signage is reported in the clip metadata and should be reviewed separately from copyright, likeness, and property considerations before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1958 Las Vegas motel exterior, vintage 8mm roadside lodging, mid-century hotel facade, and 1950s American travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1958 Las Vegas exteriors, then broader 1950s motel, road-trip, and neon-sign material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Las Vegas home-movie view of a low motel building with striped awnings, landscaping, and street foreground. — Motel exterior seen from across the street, with awnings and manicured shrubs.

Las Vegas motel exterior in a soft 1958 8mm frame, showing awnings, shrubs, and roadside frontage. — Roadside motel frontage with shaded windows and entry posts.

A white 1950s car passes the Las Vegas motel, partially obscuring the striped awning and shrubs. — White car moving past the motel frontage.

1958 Las Vegas roadside motel view with a white car, striped awnings, shrubs, and a tall sign structure above the roofline. — White car passes below the motel awnings and tall sign structure.

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