Tampa Florida USA-1960: 1950s Cars Driving On Street With Palm Trees

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Year1960
Decade1960s
LocationTampa, Florida, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 Tampa Florida

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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1950s Cars Driving On Street With Palm Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures a classic American street scene in Tampa, Florida. A dark blue and white 1950s sedan drives past a row of tall palm trees lining a paved road. Other period automobiles, including a white station wagon and a light-colored convertible, pass through the intersection under a partly cloudy sky. The footage exhibits the characteristic grain and color saturation of Super 8 film, 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: 123629159

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 1121 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: trip to florida,nassau,browns hotel,spring,woodpecker build nest,tree,catfish caught river,flowers,tulip
Reel-level year note: 1960-1961
Reel-level location note: florida,nassau
Date: 1960 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: Tampa, Florida, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing 1960 Tampa home-movie street footage with period cars, palms, and everyday urban traffic.
Period detail: The visible cars, palm-lined road, traffic signs, and color 8mm look support a mid-century Florida street setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes passing traffic from a fixed roadside position, giving the scene an unstaged travel-film perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark sedan, white station wagon, light convertible, palm trees, traffic signs, paved intersection, and distant pedestrians.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm grain, saturated color, slight exposure variation, and contact-frame edge shadows that add physical-film texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a short insert, location transition, traffic cutaway, or memory beat for mid-century Florida.
Historical context: The scene shows everyday automobile movement through a palm-lined Tampa street without supporting a specific event or landmark claim.
Research note: People appear distant and indistinct; copyright, likeness, and location context should be reviewed separately before commercial use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1960 Tampa 8mm street traffic, vintage Florida cars, palm-lined road, and home-movie urban driving footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Tampa material, then other 1960 Florida scenes, then broader mid-century car and palm-street footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 Tampa street view with a dark sedan, parked cars, palm trees, traffic signs, and a paved intersection. — A dark mid-century sedan moves through a palm-lined street scene in Tampa.

The dark sedan continues across a Tampa intersection, with palms, traffic signs, and a light car entering at right. — Traffic passes beneath tall palms at a broad street intersection.

A white station wagon moves through the Tampa street scene as the dark sedan exits frame beside palms and traffic signs. — A white station wagon crosses the intersection after the dark sedan passes.

A light-colored convertible passes across the Tampa intersection, with palm trees, road markings, and distant people in the background. — A light convertible crosses the roadway in the final frame of the clip.

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