Florida-1958: Goodyear Blimp Grounded in Field Surrounded by Palm Trees

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

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Goodyear Blimp Grounded in Field Surrounded by Palm Trees — Clip Details

FLORIDA-1958: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a Goodyear blimp grounded in a grassy field, surrounded by palm trees under an overcast sky. The iconic white airship, emblazoned with blue and yellow lettering, rests on the ground with its tail fin visible, suggesting a moment of pause during a commercial tour. The footage, shot from a moving vehicle, shows a roadside perspective with a paved road and scattered foliage, conveying a sense of mid-century Americana. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and authentic Super 8 imperfections, offering a nostalgic glimpse into 1950s transportation and leisure in Florida.

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: 125505812

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 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Florida documentary edits needing a brief home-movie view of a grounded branded blimp near a roadside landscape.
Period detail: The scene shows a white Goodyear airship, palm trees, open grass, and a roadside viewpoint consistent with the supplied 1958 Florida metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot roadside perspective, apparently filmed from a moving vehicle rather than staged for publicity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the Goodyear blimp, palm trees, grassy field, paved road, low shrubbery, cloudy sky, and occasional distant vehicles or structures.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, muted color, gate edges, dust, scratches, and handheld motion that read as authentic mid-century home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, travel transition, roadside cutaway, or memory beat for aviation, Florida tourism, or mid-century mobility.
Historical context: The clip places a branded airship within a leisure-roadside setting, suggesting how commercial aviation spectacle entered everyday travel views.
Research note: The Goodyear branding is visible, so trademark and archival-use review may be needed separate from copyright, likeness, and property considerations.
Research search match: Researcher searches might include 1958 Florida 8mm Goodyear blimp, grounded airship palm trees, roadside home movie blimp, and mid-century Florida aviation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Florida roadside footage, then blimp, aviation, palm-lined travel, or mid-century tourism scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Florida home-movie frame showing a Goodyear blimp grounded in a grassy area beyond a roadside with palm trees nearby. — Goodyear blimp seen from a roadside across an open grassy field.

The Goodyear blimp appears grounded beyond a roadway in Florida, with palm trees and soft overcast light in the frame. — Grounded Goodyear airship framed by palm trees and roadside foreground.

Roadside view in Florida with palm trees, open lawn, low plantings, and no blimp visible in this frame. — The moving camera passes a palm-lined grassy roadside after the blimp view.

Florida roadside scene from the same 1958 home movie, showing palms, lawn, shrubs, and soft film grain as the vehicle moves past. — Palm trees and open roadside grass continue in the final frame.

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