California-1959: White Tropical Hotel With Palm Trees And Waterfront View

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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White Tropical Hotel With Palm Trees And Waterfront View — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1959 captures a tropical California resort scene. The footage shows a white, multi-story hotel building with balconies, surrounded by lush palm trees and greenery. The camera pans across the property, revealing the building's mid-century modern architecture and a waterfront view. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, characteristic of home movie footage from the era. The bright, sunny atmosphere evokes a sense of mid-century leisure and nostalgia.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125508240

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: Useful for 1950s California leisure, travel, resort, or waterfront establishing needs in documentary, museum, educational, or commercial edits.
Period detail: The white low-rise hotel, open balconies, awnings, palm landscaping, and waterfront edge may show mid-century resort architecture and vacation infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, panning from palms and grounds toward the hotel as a traveler records the property from across the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include palm trees, a white multi-story hotel, balcony railings, awnings, waterfront edging, lawn, sky, and home-movie frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, handheld motion, saturated color shifts, gate edges, and visible grain that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief resort establishing insert, travel transition, waterfront cutaway, or memory beat for mid-century California leisure.
Historical context: The scene reflects a sunlit hotel or resort environment with tropical landscaping and water access, without enough evidence to identify the property by name.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are evident, but property identity and copyright status should be reviewed separately before publication.
Research search match: Searches such as 1959 California hotel 8mm footage, mid-century waterfront resort, palm trees hotel home movie, and tropical motel exterior may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with California 1959 travel footage, then with broader mid-century resort, hotel, palm, or waterfront themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 California home-movie frame showing palm trees and dense greenery near a white waterfront hotel. — Palms and greenery partially obscure a white hotel near the water.

White waterfront hotel with balconies, palm trees, and lawn in a 1959 California travel scene. — A white hotel stands beyond the water with palms around the property.

1959 California 8mm frame showing a white hotel facade with balconies, awnings, and waterfront railing. — The camera moves closer to the hotel's balcony-lined facade.

White mid-century hotel exterior with balconies, awnings, palm trunk, and waterfront foreground in California footage from 1959. — A final view frames the hotel's balconies and awnings beside the water.

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