Cape Cod Massachusetts-1956: Passing A Row Of Small White Houses On A Cloudy Day

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Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationCape Cod, Massachusetts, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1956 Cape Cod Massachusetts

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Passing A Row Of Small White Houses On A Cloudy Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1956, this vintage home movie captures a slow-moving view of a row of small white houses along a coastal road in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The footage, taken from a moving vehicle, shows the houses passing by under a uniformly cloudy sky, with muted greens in the foreground vegetation. The image is soft-focused and grainy, characteristic of Super 8 film from the era, with a slightly faded color palette. The scene evokes a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere of mid-century American life.

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: 125304188

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 1039 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: jones beach,hyde park,cape cod
Reel-level year note: 1956
Reel-level location note: hyde park, cape cod
Date: 1956 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: Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 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 1950s Cape Cod coastal road atmosphere, small residential buildings, or understated mid-century travel-view cutaways.
Period detail: The small light-colored houses, low coastal vegetation, and muted roadside view may show a mid-1950s Cape Cod residential area.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the casual feel of a traveler filming from a moving vehicle rather than a staged view of the houses.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include small white houses, gray roofs, grassy roadside vegetation, a cloudy sky, soft focus, and dark frame edges from the scan.
Film character: The 8mm color footage shows soft focus, visible grain, mild fading, and slight handheld or vehicle movement typical of home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, travel transition, or memory beat for coastal New England domestic life.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for modest Cape Cod roadside housing and overcast coastal conditions without showing people or activity.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright and any property-related use should still be reviewed for the intended project.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1956 8mm Cape Cod houses, vintage Massachusetts coastal road footage, cloudy day home movie, and mid-century seaside residences.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1956 Cape Cod material, then broader 1950s coastal housing or road-travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 Cape Cod home-movie frame showing small light-colored houses behind coastal grass on an overcast day. — Small houses pass beyond low roadside vegetation in a soft, overcast view.

Cape Cod roadside houses appear across a grassy foreground in soft 1956 8mm color footage. — A row of pale residential buildings appears through the moving camera view.

Soft, blurred 8mm frame of Cape Cod houses and roadside vegetation filmed from a moving vehicle. — Roadside greenery and pale houses blur slightly as the vehicle passes.

1956 Cape Cod frame showing a light house with red roof detail, tall antenna, and grassy foreground. — A light-colored house with a red roof detail passes behind low coastal vegetation.

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