Las Vegas USA-1958: Two-Story Holiday Inn Hotel Charging $6 A Night For Two

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

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Two-Story Holiday Inn Hotel Charging $6 A Night For Two — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a classic mid-century motel sign for the Holiday Inn in Las Vegas. The camera slowly pans down from the iconic vertical 'HOTEL' letters to reveal a price sign advertising rooms for $6 per night for two persons, with amenities like a heated pool. The image shows the distinct retro design of the era, with a two-story building in the background, all rendered in the soft, slightly faded colors and film grain characteristic of Super 8 footage. This authentic slice of Americana evokes nostalgia for 1950s travel and roadside culture.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
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: 123609671

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 signage, and mid-century tourism edits needing brief authentic home-movie footage.
Period detail: The vertical HOTEL letters, price board, low two-story motel building, and faded color 8mm look support a late-1950s roadside lodging setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, slowly reframing from the motel sign down toward the rate board and building without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a tall motel sign, vertical HOTEL lettering, a rate board, a heated pool mention, two-story lodging, windows, shrubs, and street frontage.
Film character: Soft focus, light overexposure, handheld framing, gate edges, and visible film grain give the clip the texture of original 8mm travel footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a Las Vegas motel cutaway, a travel-memory insert, or a transition into mid-century roadside tourism.
Historical context: The $6 room rate sign and motel architecture visually place the scene within postwar American automobile travel culture.
Research note: Holiday Inn branding is visible, so trademark and contextual use should be reviewed separately from footage copyright and any property concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Las Vegas motel sign, 8mm Holiday Inn footage, vintage roadside hotel, mid-century travel rates, and home movie lodging exterior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1958 Las Vegas exteriors, then broader 1950s motel, signage, travel, and roadside Americana material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Las Vegas home-movie frame showing the upper portion of a tall motel sign with vertical HOTEL letters. — Upper section of the motel sign as the camera begins its downward pan.

1958 Las Vegas frame with the Holiday Inn motel sign, partial rate board, and a low two-story building below. — The sign and rate board come into view over the motel frontage.

1958 Las Vegas home-movie frame showing a motel rate board advertising 6 dollars for two persons above the building. — The rate sign fills more of the frame, with the motel building behind it.

1958 Las Vegas frame showing the Holiday Inn sign, rate board, two-story motel exterior, shrubs, and street frontage. — Wider view of the sign, price board, and motel exterior at the end of the shot.

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