Las Vegas USA-1958: Roadside Motel And Passing Car On 8mm Film

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

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Roadside Motel And Passing Car On 8mm Film — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a classic American roadside scene in Las Vegas. The footage shows a mid-century motel with a distinctive circular sign and a tall vertical 'MOTEL' sign, viewed from a moving vehicle. A white car passes by on the road, and the grainy, slightly faded color palette evokes strong nostalgia. The handheld camera movement suggests a casual family trip, offering authentic archival footage of 1950s roadside 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: 123609680

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 or roadside Americana requests needing brief editorial inserts of motels, car travel, and visitor-shot urban streetscape footage.
Period detail: The frames show mid-century roadside motel architecture, a vertical MOTEL sign, low commercial buildings, and passing cars consistent with the supplied 1958 Las Vegas metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The moving-vehicle viewpoint gives the clip an unstaged travel-record quality, as if filmed quickly from a family car while passing roadside lodging.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a roadside motel, vertical MOTEL sign, circular sign, low buildings, roadway, passing cars, bare trees, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, pale color, gate edges, grain, slight exposure washout, and handheld motion that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, travel transition, location-establishing insert, or memory beat for postwar American road-trip material.
Historical context: The clip documents a visitor-level view of car-oriented motel frontage and commercial roadside space in Las Vegas during the late 1950s.
Research note: Human review should note visible motel signage and possible business identifiers; no people are visible, but copyright, trademark, and property issues remain separate checks.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1958 Las Vegas 8mm motel footage, 1950s roadside motel home movie, vintage Nevada street scene, and passing car archive footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel travel shots, then other 1958 Las Vegas material, then broader 1950s roadside motel and American car-travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Las Vegas roadside motel scene filmed from a moving vehicle, with a circular sign, low building, bare trees, and a passing car. — A passing car crosses in front of a motel and circular roadside sign.

1958 Las Vegas roadside view with a tall vertical MOTEL sign, low commercial buildings, roadway, and faded 8mm exposure. — A vertical MOTEL sign stands beside a broad roadside scene.

1958 Las Vegas motel frontage with a vertical MOTEL sign, road surface, low building, and faded home-movie color. — The camera passes a motel sign and low roadside structure.

1958 Las Vegas roadside motel view from a moving car, with a low building, sign edge, open road, and blurred vehicle at lower right. — A blurred vehicle passes as the motel frontage slips by the camera.

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