Nevada USA-1959: Vintage Motel With Green Pickup Truck In Parking Lot

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationNevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Vintage Motel With Green Pickup Truck In Parking Lot — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a classic American motel in Nevada. The two-story building features a long, flat-roofed structure with balconies and a wide parking lot. A light green vintage pickup truck drives across the lot, adding motion to the scene. The footage exhibits the characteristic grain, color shifts, and soft focus of mid-century home movies, offering a nostalgic glimpse into 1950s roadside travel and architecture.

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: 123621561

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1959 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Nevada, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing 1950s Nevada roadside travel, motel exteriors, or mid-century American parking-lot cutaways for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The flat-roofed two-story motel, open balcony walkways, broad paved lot, and rounded pickup truck may show late-1950s roadside lodging design.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot home-movie viewpoint, watching a motel frontage and passing pickup from across the parking lot without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a two-story motel, exterior balcony railings, stairway, wide asphalt parking lot, utility poles, distant hills, and a pale green pickup truck.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, blue-shifted color, rounded frame edges, visible grain, and slight handheld framing typical of mid-century home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, motel cutaway, or memory beat for roadside lodging and car-travel sequences.
Historical context: The scene reflects automobile-oriented lodging and open parking-lot frontage in a Nevada setting, without enough detail to identify the exact motel.
Research note: No faces, children, logos, or readable signage are visible, but copyright, property, and location identification should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 8mm Nevada motel exterior, vintage roadside lodging, green pickup in parking lot, and 1950s American travel home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then Nevada 1959 travel material, then broader 1950s motel, highway, parking-lot, and vintage vehicle footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Nevada home-movie frame showing a two-story roadside motel across a broad paved parking lot, with utility poles and hills beyond. — Two-story motel frontage seen from across the parking lot.

1959 Nevada motel exterior with a broad asphalt lot and a light-colored vehicle partly visible along the left edge of the frame. — Motel exterior with a vehicle just entering the parking lot view.

1959 Nevada home-movie frame with a light green vintage pickup truck moving across the motel parking lot in front of a two-story building. — Light green pickup truck passes across the motel parking lot.

1959 Nevada frame showing a light green pickup truck near the motel frontage, with balcony walkways, stairs, windows, and distant hills visible. — Pickup truck near the motel frontage with balcony walkways behind it.

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