New Orleans Louisiana-1949: Beige Buick Car in Sunlight

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Year1949
Decade1940s
LocationNew Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1949 New Orleans Louisiana

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Beige Buick Car in Sunlight — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from 1949 captures a gleaming beige Buick automobile parked on a dirt path surrounded by trees. The car's chrome grille, round headlights, and whitewall tires reflect sunlight, highlighting its classic 1940s design. Shot on Super 8 film, the footage shows natural film grain and slight color fading. The camera remains steady, focusing on the car's front profile as light glints off its polished surface.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 125297215

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

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: 1949 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: New Orleans, Louisiana, 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 1940s-era documentary or commercial edits needing a short home-movie view of a parked postwar American automobile in a Southern outdoor setting.
Period detail: The rounded body, chrome grille, hood ornament, whitewall tire, and yellow plate support the 1949 automobile-era context described in the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera lingers on the car as a family-film subject, valuing its shine, styling, and presence rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a beige sedan, chrome grille, round headlights, hood ornament, yellow license plate, whitewall tire, dirt path, trees, and strong sun glare.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, bright chrome highlights, and slight frame-edge darkness typical of home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cutaway, period insert, memory beat, or visual transition into travel, family, automobile, or mid-century street-life material.
Historical context: The clip gives a close home-movie record of automobile ownership and display in an outdoor New Orleans setting without showing people or identifiable buildings.
Research note: No people are visible, but the Buick make, emblem, and plate area may require brand or identification review separate from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1949 8mm home movie Buick, New Orleans vintage car footage, beige 1940s automobile, chrome grille whitewall tires, and home movie parked car.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1949 New Orleans footage, then broader mid-century American car, travel, or family-home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 New Orleans home-movie frame showing a beige Buick-style sedan with chrome grille and whitewall tire on a shaded dirt path. — A beige vintage sedan catches sunlight from the front-left angle on a tree-lined dirt path.

1949 New Orleans frame with a beige Buick-style automobile facing the camera, chrome bright in sunlight and trees behind it. — The car is shown head-on, with its chrome grille, hood ornament, and license plate visible.

1949 New Orleans home-movie frame of a beige Buick-style sedan, framed close with bright windshield glare and leafy background. — A closer head-on view emphasizes the rounded hood, windshield glare, and polished chrome front end.

Final 1949 New Orleans frame showing the beige Buick-style car centered, with chrome grille, plate, and shaded roadside setting visible. — The final frame holds on the centered front of the beige car against trees and a dirt path.

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