Florida-1958: Coastal City with Hotels and Marina

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

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Coastal City with Hotels and Marina — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage footage captures a sun-drenched view of a Florida coastal city from a moving vehicle. The clip opens with a wide shot of modern high-rise hotels and apartment buildings lining the waterfront, their white facades standing against a bright sky. The perspective shifts as the camera moves, revealing a marina with boats and a glimpse of a classic yellow taxi on a bustling street. Palm trees and a 'Bancroft Hotel' sign confirm the location's tropical, mid-century charm. The film's natural grain, slight blur, and warm color palette evoke a nostalgic, authentic home movie feel.

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: 125505831

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 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 coastal city, waterfront hotel, marina, and street-establishing needs in documentary, museum, education, or period commercial edits.
Period detail: The footage shows mid-century waterfront towers, older low-rise hotel architecture, classic cars, palm-lined streets, and a yellow taxi consistent with the supplied 1958 Florida metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot moving-vehicle viewpoint, recording hotels, water, harbor activity, and street life as passing vacation or travel scenery.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include waterfront high-rises, bay water, marina boats, a road or bridge railing, palm trees, street traffic, pedestrians, and a Bancroft Hotel sign.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, mild exposure shifts, and handheld motion that read as authentic mid-century home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, coastal city cutaway, or memory beat between Florida vacation or urban waterfront scenes.
Historical context: The views place hotel development, automobile movement, harbor use, and pedestrian street activity together in a warm-weather coastal city setting.
Research note: Review may be needed for visible people, identifiable hotel signage, and property or trademark context; copyright status is separate from likeness and property permissions.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1958 Florida 8mm waterfront hotels, mid-century coastal city street, marina home movie, yellow taxi, and vintage hotel sign footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Florida travel shots, then same 1958 location material, then broader mid-century coastal hotel, marina, and city-street footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Florida waterfront view with white high-rise buildings across the water, framed by dark film edges and a vertical obstruction. — Waterfront hotels or apartment towers line the far shore across open water.

1958 Florida coastal view showing modern waterfront towers across bay water, with shoreline trees and soft 8mm film grain. — Modern waterfront buildings appear across the bay in a passing city view.

1958 Florida harbor view with boats, parked cars, water, and a low shoreline, partly obscured by motion blur from the moving camera. — Boats and cars appear near the harbor as the camera passes a foreground barrier.

1958 Florida street view with a yellow taxi, pedestrians, palm trees, hotel buildings, and a visible Bancroft Hotel sign. — A yellow taxi passes hotels and palm trees near a visible Bancroft Hotel sign.

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