Florida-1958: Cityscape View With Palm Trees And High-Rise Buildings

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationFlorida, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Florida

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Cityscape View With Palm Trees And High-Rise Buildings — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched Florida landscape with a distant cityscape. The view, framed by a window, shows palm trees swaying in the breeze, a mix of low-rise and mid-century high-rise buildings, and a body of water. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight blurriness, and film scratches, evoking a nostalgic 1950s Americana feel. This archival clip offers a glimpse of Florida's evolving urban development during the mid-20th century.

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: 125505807

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 1267 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1958
Reel-level location note: florida
Date: 1958 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: 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports requests for late-1950s Florida urban waterfront footage, especially documentary inserts on coastal development, travel, or mid-century city views.
Period detail: The distant high-rises, palms, open waterfront, and low roadside structures may show mid-century Florida growth as seen from a passing or window-framed home-movie viewpoint.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, observing the city from a fixed or passing vantage point rather than staging a composed postcard view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include palm trees, distant high-rise buildings, low waterfront structures, open grass, a roadway or shoreline edge, utility poles, and water beyond the foreground.
Film character: Soft 8mm focus, visible grain, gate edges, dust, scratches, and uneven exposure give the brief city view a tactile home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short establishing insert, transitional cutaway, or memory beat for Florida travel, coastal urbanization, or 1950s city atmosphere.
Historical context: The view places modern towers and palms across open waterfront land, suggesting a Florida city environment in a period of visible urban expansion without identifying a specific skyline.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but skyline identity, buildings, and any underlying copyright or property issues should still be checked for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1958 Florida 8mm cityscape, vintage waterfront skyline with palm trees, mid-century Florida home movie, and distant high-rise buildings.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Florida 1958 travel footage, and finally with broader 1950s waterfront cityscape or palm-lined urban views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Florida home-movie frame with open grass, a low road or waterfront edge, distant palms, and soft buildings beyond a dark window-like border. — Distant palms and low structures seen across open ground in a soft 8mm Florida view.

1958 Florida waterfront cityscape with palm trees, utility poles, low foreground structures, water, and a distant high-rise softened by 8mm blur. — Palm trees and a distant high-rise appear across a waterfront city scene.

Soft 1958 Florida frame showing a waterfront edge, palms, utility poles, a blocky high-rise, and low city structures in the foreground. — A blocky high-rise stands beyond palms and low waterfront structures.

1958 Florida city view with open grass in front, palm trees, a pale cylindrical structure, water, and distant high-rise buildings along the skyline. — Open waterfront ground leads toward palms and distant high-rise buildings.

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