Nevada USA-1959: Traffic on Three-Lane Highway

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationNevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Traffic on Three-Lane Highway — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a first-person view driving on a three-lane highway through an urban area in Nevada. Classic American cars from the late 1950s, including sedans and a distinctive bus, share the road under a cloudy sky. The footage shows moderate traffic flow with buildings and commercial signage lining the roadside. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic look of a home movie, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, nostalgic content, or history projects.

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: 123621760

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Nevada transportation requests needing a brief first-person highway-driving view with period cars in moderate urban traffic.
Period detail: Visible clues include late-1950s automobile shapes, a wide multi-lane roadway, roadside buildings, utility poles, and a bus-like vehicle under a cloudy sky.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged passenger-or-driver viewpoint, preserving the everyday motion of travel through a city roadway rather than a planned street study.
What appears in frame: Frames show lane markings, classic sedans, a distant bus or coach, roadside buildings, utility poles, cloudy sky, and passing vehicles near the camera.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, exposure variation, and contact-sheet dust that support its home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, road-trip transition, transportation cutaway, or memory beat between broader 1950s Nevada sequences.
Historical context: The view documents everyday automobile travel and roadside urban development in Nevada without identifying a specific highway, landmark, or business.
Research note: People may be present at a distance, and copyright status is separate from any likeness, location, vehicle, signage, or property review needed for use.
Research search match: 1959 Nevada 8mm highway driving, 1950s urban traffic home movie, vintage American cars on multi-lane road, roadside transportation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Nevada 1959 road scenes, then broader 1950s U.S. traffic and highway footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Nevada 8mm view from a moving vehicle on a broad urban roadway with period cars, lane markings, and low roadside buildings. — First-person roadway view with moderate traffic and buildings along the left side.

1959 Nevada road view with a rounded sedan ahead, lighter exposure, utility poles, and indistinct roadside traffic in the distance. — Traffic continues along the highway with a period sedan visible at right.

1959 Nevada 8mm frame showing a car ahead on a broad road, distant traffic, roadside structures, and prominent dust on the film image. — A car leads the view down the roadway as film dust marks the lower frame.

1959 Nevada roadway view with a bus-like vehicle ahead, light traffic, lane markings, utility poles, and a nearby car at the right edge. — A bus-like vehicle appears ahead while another car passes near the camera on the right.

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