Tampa Florida USA-1960: Classic Car Parked Outside Hotel with Palm Trees

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

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Classic Car Parked Outside Hotel with Palm Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures a classic American scene in Tampa, Florida. A white and dark-colored 1960s sedan is parked in front of a low-rise building with a brick facade, likely a hotel or motel, surrounded by swaying palm trees. The footage is framed through a metal railing, suggesting a view from a balcony or walkway. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and a warm, nostalgic tone characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. The car remains stationary throughout the 5-second clip, with the palm fronds gently moving in a breeze under a bright sky.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123629997

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 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s Florida travel, lodging, roadside architecture, or classic-car cutaways in documentary and period-setting edits.
Period detail: The sedan styling, palm landscaping, metal railing, and low-rise hotel or motel exterior support an early-1960s Tampa setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot balcony or walkway viewpoint, observing a parked car and palm-lined building without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a two-tone sedan, metal railing, palm trees, brick-faced building section, pale exterior walls, pavement, and bright sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild color fade, gate edges, and slight handheld framing that preserve its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short establishing insert, travel transition, memory beat, or quiet cutaway for mid-century Florida lodging.
Historical context: The scene reflects car-centered travel and palm-planted hospitality exteriors in Florida without identifying a specific property or chain.
Research note: No faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and property-context questions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1960 Tampa home movie, 8mm Florida hotel exterior, classic car outside motel, palm trees, and vintage travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1960 Tampa material, then Florida travel, hotels, palm streets, or classic-car scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 Tampa 8mm frame showing a two-tone sedan parked outside a palm-lined hotel or motel exterior behind a metal railing. — Parked sedan seen from behind a railing outside a palm-lined building.

1960 Tampa frame with a stationary sedan in front of palms and a low-rise lodging-style building, partly obscured by a railing. — Stationary sedan and palms outside a low-rise building.

1960 Tampa 8mm view of a parked sedan and palm trees outside a low-rise hotel or motel-like building from a raised walkway. — Balcony-like view across railing toward a parked car and palms.

1960 Tampa frame showing the front portion of a parked sedan beneath a metal railing, with palm trees and a low-rise exterior behind it. — Front of the parked sedan beneath the railing near palm trees.

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