Fort Wayne Indiana-1974: Driving Down The Highway And View Of A Hotel With A

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Year1974
Decade1970s
LocationFort Wayne, Indiana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1974 Fort Wayne Indiana

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Driving Down The Highway And View Of A Hotel With A — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1974, this vintage home movie captures a drive through Fort Wayne, Indiana. The footage shows a classic roadside motel with a prominent yellow vertical sign and a blue triangular marquee reading 'See Missle'. Palm trees frame the two-story building under a bright blue sky, with a white van parked in the lot. The scene transitions to a view from a moving car, showing a highway winding alongside a tree-covered hill under an overcast sky. The film exhibits natural grain and color shifts typical of 8mm home movies from the era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124445948

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1974 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: Fort Wayne, Indiana, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s editorial requests needing roadside motel exteriors, car-travel views, or brief home-movie inserts tied by metadata to Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Period detail: Visible clues include an 8mm color look, a roadside motel sign, a white van, older low-rise lodging architecture, and highway travel scenes that fit the stated 1974 period.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot travel perspective, moving from a quick motel view to an in-car highway view without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: The frames show a motel sign, palm trees, a two-story lodging building, parked vehicles, a road edge, a car hood, a highway, and a wooded hillside.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, gate edges, exposure variation, and color shifts that preserve the physical home-movie scan texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief travel transition, roadside cutaway, motel establishing insert, or memory beat within a 1970s road-trip sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents everyday automobile travel and roadside lodging as seen through a home-movie camera, with no visible crowd activity or identifiable people.
Research note: Visible motel signage and commercial exterior details may require review for trademark, copyright, and property-context concerns, separate from likeness rights.
Research search match: Researcher searches might include 1974 8mm roadside motel, 1970s highway driving home movie, vintage motel sign, or Fort Wayne Indiana travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel footage, then with other 1974 Fort Wayne material, then with broader 1970s motel, highway, and road-trip scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 home-movie frame tied by metadata to Fort Wayne, showing a roadside motel, yellow sign, palm trees, and parked vehicles. — A roadside motel sign and low-rise lodging building are seen from across the road.

Roadside motel exterior in 1974 8mm footage, with palm trees, a vertical sign, parked vehicles, and bright sky. — The camera holds on the motel frontage, sign, palm trees, and parked vehicles.

In-car 8mm travel view showing a highway, car hood, roadside barrier, open land, and a tree-covered hillside. — A moving car view looks down a highway running beside a wooded hill.

Home-movie driving view from a car, with the road curving beside open ground and a dark hillside under pale sky. — The car continues along the highway with a hillside filling the background.

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