California-1959: Mimi Hotel With Severn Rooms And Ls Palm Tree Out Father

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Mimi Hotel With Severn Rooms And Ls Palm Tree Out Father — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a white multi-story hotel building in California, framed by tall palm trees swaying in the breeze. The footage, likely taken from a moving vehicle, shows the building's Art Deco-style facade with rows of windows and balconies under a bright blue sky. The warm, slightly faded colors and grainy texture of the Super 8 film evoke a nostalgic mid-century American vacation atmosphere, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 125508232

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 1084 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: philip 15 mos,santa anita,vegas,arizona,new mexico
Reel-level year note: 1958-1959
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1959 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: California, 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: 1959 California home-movie footage for productions needing a brief exterior view of a mid-century hotel or apartment-style building with palms.
Period detail: The white multi-story facade, horizontal window bands, balconies and palm-lined setting may show mid-century California hotel or resort architecture.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a visitor or family-travel viewpoint, briefly passing the building rather than staging a formal architectural record.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a white multi-story building, rows of windows, balcony rails, tall palm trees, bright sky, sidewalk edge and roadside greenery.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fade, gate edges and handheld movement that preserve its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel transition, exterior cutaway or vacation-memory beat in a 1950s California sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents a sunny palm-lined lodging exterior, useful as visual context for mid-century leisure travel without identifying the specific property.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but the building should still be reviewed for property, location identification and underlying film copyright questions.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1959 California hotel exterior, 8mm palm tree building footage and mid-century vacation lodging home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1959 California exteriors, then broader palm-lined hotel or vacation travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 California home-movie frame showing a white hotel-like building with horizontal window rows and palm trees in front. — Palm trees partially obscure a white multi-story lodging exterior.

1959 California frame with palms crossing the facade of a white multi-story hotel or apartment-style building. — A palm-lined facade fills the frame during the brief exterior pass.

1959 California home-movie view of a white corner building, palms, shrubs and a roadside edge. — The camera angle shifts toward the corner of the building and nearby landscaping.

1959 California frame showing palms, dense greenery and a white lodging exterior partly hidden by trees. — Palms and trees screen the building as the view moves past the property.

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