Nevada USA-1959: Truck Driving Past A Hotel Parking Lot In The Afternoon

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationNevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Truck Driving Past A Hotel Parking Lot In The Afternoon — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a classic American motel in Nevada during the afternoon. The two-story building features a long row of rooms with balconies, a paved parking lot filled with mid-century automobiles including a distinctive blue pickup truck. The footage shows the truck driving through the lot, passing parked cars under a bright sky with scattered clouds. The warm, slightly faded color palette and film grain evoke a strong sense of 1950s Americana and road trip nostalgia. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, retro-themed projects, and historical content.

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: 123621573

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

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 Nevada motel parking-lot footage suited for documentary inserts about mid-century road travel, lodging, automobiles, or everyday roadside America.
Period detail: The two-story motel block, exterior corridors, open asphalt lot, and mid-century cars may show late-1950s roadside lodging design and travel culture.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, watching a blue pickup move through a motel lot without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a two-story motel, exterior balconies, parked cars, a blue pickup, asphalt pavement, small shrubs, sidewalks, and a bright clouded sky.
Film character: The 8mm color image carries soft focus, visible grain, slight fade, and uneven exposure that give the short scene physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief cutaway, travel transition, motel establishing insert, or memory beat for 1950s Nevada road-trip material.
Historical context: The scene places automobile travel and motel accommodation in the same frame, showing an everyday roadside setting rather than a named landmark.
Research note: No people, brands, or readable logos are visible, but copyright, location identification, and property-context review should remain separate clearance steps.
Research search match: Useful search phrasing includes 1959 Nevada 8mm motel parking lot, 1950s roadside hotel cars, blue pickup at motel, and vintage home movie travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Nevada 1959 travel footage, then broader 1950s motel, automobile, and road-trip scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Nevada 8mm frame showing a motel parking lot, exterior corridors, parked mid-century cars, and a blue pickup in afternoon light. — A blue pickup sits or moves near parked cars in a two-story motel parking lot.

1959 Nevada motel lot seen on 8mm film, with exterior room rows, several parked cars, and a blue pickup facing the camera. — The camera looks down the motel parking lot as the blue pickup appears among parked cars.

1959 Nevada home-movie frame with a blue pickup crossing a motel lot beside parked cars and exterior motel balconies. — The blue pickup passes through the open asphalt lot beside the motel building.

1959 Nevada 8mm frame showing the blue pickup near the right side of a motel parking lot, with rooms, stairs, shrubs, and parked cars behind it. — The pickup reaches the right side of the frame near the motel building and parked cars.

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