Japan-1953: Red And Blue Bus Parked In Parking Lot On A Bright Sunny Day

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Japan

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Red And Blue Bus Parked In Parking Lot On A Bright Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage Japanese home movie captures a bustling street scene. A distinctive red and blue K.H.K. bus is parked in front of a building with Japanese signage, while classic American-style cars from the era line the lot. Men in suits walk past the brick building under a bright, sunny sky. The footage shows natural film grain and slight motion blur, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the 1950s. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century Japanese urban life and transportation.

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: 125230792

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: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1033 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1953
Reel-level location note: japan
Date: 1953 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: Japan 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 1950s Japan transportation, street-life, or postwar urban establishing material in documentary and museum edits.
Period detail: The rounded cars, brick facade, Japanese signage, and red-and-blue K.H.K. bus may show mid-century urban transport and parking-lot design.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor viewpoint, watching vehicles and pedestrians from across a bright street or parking area.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red-and-blue bus, parked dark sedans, a brick building, Japanese signage, suited pedestrians, utility poles, and sunlit pavement.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight blur, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet edge density that give it physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, transport insert, street transition, or memory beat within a 1950s Japan sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually situates buses, imported-style cars, and pedestrians around a commercial or station-like frontage without confirming the exact site.
Research note: People and visible vehicle or signage markings require likeness, trademark, and location review separate from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1953 Japan 8mm bus footage, mid-century Japanese street parking, vintage K.H.K. bus, or 1950s urban transport home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Japan travel scenes, then with 1953 Japan street views, then with broader mid-century bus and parking-lot footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Japan home-movie frame showing a dark sedan in front of a brick building as pedestrians cross a bright paved area. — A car passes a brick building while pedestrians move through the sunlit lot.

1953 Japan street-lot view with several parked mid-century cars beside a brick building and small pedestrians in the distance. — Parked cars line the side of a brick building in a bright urban lot.

1953 Japan home-movie frame showing the front of a red-and-blue bus beside parked cars and low commercial buildings. — The front of a red-and-blue bus enters the frame near parked mid-century cars.

1953 Japan frame with a red-and-blue K.H.K. bus seen broadside below Japanese signage and windows. — A K.H.K. bus fills the foreground below Japanese signage on a building facade.

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