Nevada USA-1959: Vintage Pickup Truck At Mid-Century Motel

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationNevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Vintage Pickup Truck At Mid-Century Motel — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a classic American roadside motel in Nevada. A light blue vintage pickup truck drives slowly through the parking lot, passing a two-story beige motel with balconies and a distinctive mid-century design. The scene is bathed in bright daylight, with a clear blue sky and scattered clouds. The footage exhibits authentic film grain and slight color fading, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. The camera remains mostly static, offering a nostalgic glimpse into 1950s American 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: 123621577

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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: Useful for 1950s U.S. travel, roadside lodging, and mid-century motel atmosphere in documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions.
Period detail: The clip shows a low two-story motel, exterior balcony railings, open parking, yellow bollards, and a light blue pickup that support a late-1950s roadside-travel reading.
Home-movie behavior: The static home-movie viewpoint records a passing vehicle and motel exterior as an incidental travel memory rather than a staged commercial scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a beige two-story motel, balcony walkway, exterior stairs, shrubs, paved parking lot, yellow bollards, blue sky, and a light blue pickup truck.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, rounded frame edges, mild color fading, and slight exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, travel transition, motel-establishing insert, or memory beat for mid-century American road-trip sequences.
Historical context: The scene reflects car-oriented roadside lodging and open parking-lot motel design visible in Nevada home-movie footage from 1959.
Research note: Human review should consider any visible driver or passerby likeness and motel-property identification separately from copyright status; no clearance is guaranteed.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1959 Nevada 8mm motel footage, vintage pickup at roadside motel, mid-century American travel, and home-movie road-trip cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Nevada 1959 travel material, then broader 1950s roadside motel, parking-lot, and vintage-vehicle footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Nevada home-movie frame showing a beige roadside motel, balcony walkway, shrubs, and a light blue pickup partly entering at right. — A light blue pickup appears at the edge of a mid-century motel parking lot.

1959 Nevada frame of a roadside motel exterior with balcony railings, yellow parking-lot bollards, and a light blue pickup near the right edge. — The motel facade and parking-lot bollards are seen as the pickup moves through frame.

1959 Nevada home-movie still with a light blue pickup crossing the foreground of a beige two-story motel and open parking lot. — A pickup truck drives past the motel exterior in bright daylight.

1959 Nevada frame showing a light blue pickup in the motel parking lot, with a beige two-story roadside motel and balcony behind it. — The pickup continues across the lot in front of the motel balcony and stairs.

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