Florida-1958: Curved High-Rise With Palm Trees And International Flags

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

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Curved High-Rise With Palm Trees And International Flags — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage footage captures a modern high-rise building with curved architecture and rows of windows, set against a bright sky. Palm trees sway in the foreground, adding a tropical feel to the urban scene. The camera pans across the structure, revealing international flags strung along the facade and a "No Parking Taxi" sign in the lower frame. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American atmosphere. This archival clip offers authentic 1950s-era footage ideal for documentaries, retro projects, or historical storytelling.

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: 125505898

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing 1950s Florida urban travel footage, especially exterior cutaways of modern resort-style architecture, palms, and international flags.
Period detail: The curved facade, broad window bands, palm-lined street, and taxi parking sign may show mid-century Florida hotel or apartment architecture in a visitor-shot view.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged home-movie glance from the street, with the camera panning across the building rather than presenting a formal architectural record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a rounded high-rise facade, rows of windows, palm trees, street lighting, international flags, a sidewalk edge, and a No Parking Taxi sign.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, mild color fading, gate shadows, handheld framing, and motion blur that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, architectural cutaway, or memory beat within a mid-century Florida sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually suggests postwar leisure or urban development in a warm-weather Florida setting, without identifying the building or event shown.
Research note: Human review should confirm any building identity, flag display context, and visible signage, with copyright, property, and trademark questions assessed separately.
Research search match: Searches such as 1958 Florida 8mm high-rise, mid-century hotel exterior with palms, international flags on building, or vintage Miami-style street view may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Florida 1958 footage, then related mid-century urban exteriors, hotels, palms, street signs, and travel establishing shots.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Florida 8mm frame showing a rounded high-rise facade, window bands, palm trees, and a partly cloudy sky. — A curved modern high-rise rises behind palms in a Florida street view.

1958 Florida 8mm view of a curved high-rise with continuous window bands, palm fronds, and soft handheld framing. — The camera continues across the rounded facade and palm-lined foreground.

1958 Florida street-level frame with several palms in front of a curved high-rise and softened 8mm color. — Palm trees partially obscure the broad window bands of the high-rise.

1958 Florida 8mm frame showing international flags along a high-rise facade and a No Parking Taxi sign near the lower right. — Flags line the building frontage above a street sign reading No Parking Taxi.

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