South Bend Indiana-1958: Woman In Polka Dot Dress Walks On Sidewalk

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationSouth Bend, Indiana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 South Bend Indiana

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Woman In Polka Dot Dress Walks On Sidewalk — Clip Details

A woman in a polka-dot dress and hat walks along a suburban sidewalk in South Bend, Indiana, in 1958. She carries a bag and gestures while talking, her expression animated. A classic 1950s sedan is parked on the street behind her, and a house with a lawn is visible in the background. Shot on 8mm film, the footage has a soft, nostalgic quality with natural lighting and authentic period details. The scene captures a candid moment of everyday life from the late 1950s.

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: 125882837

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 2028 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: twenty grand
Reel-level year note: 1958
Reel-level location note: french lick, indiana
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: South Bend, Indiana, 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 U.S. home-movie requests needing everyday suburban street life, women's fashion, or a brief South Bend sidewalk moment for documentary or educational use.
Period detail: The dress, hat, handbag, residential sidewalk, lawn, and parked mid-century sedan support a late-1950s suburban setting, consistent with the South Bend, Indiana metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The woman appears to walk and talk naturally toward someone off camera, giving the clip an unstaged social-home-movie quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a dark polka-dot dress, a brimmed hat, a handbag or package, a sidewalk, a lawn, a house facade, small trees, and a parked sedan.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, and slight handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, memory beat, or transition for domestic life, 1950s fashion, neighborhood scenes, or personal-history sequences.
Historical context: The scene shows an adult woman moving through a residential neighborhood, with clothing and automobile details that visually place the moment in mid-century everyday life.
Research note: A visible adult face may require likeness review, while copyright, location, and any property considerations should be assessed separately for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches such as 1958 South Bend home movie, 1950s woman walking sidewalk, vintage Indiana neighborhood, 8mm suburban street, and mid-century women's fashion.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other South Bend 1958 material, then broader 1950s home-movie clips of sidewalks, neighborhoods, cars, and everyday social moments.

Still Frames From This Clip

In South Bend, Indiana, a woman in 1950s dress and hat walks along a residential sidewalk with parked sedans in the background. — Woman in a polka-dot dress walks past a lawn and parked cars in a residential street scene.

A woman in a polka-dot dress gestures while walking through a South Bend residential neighborhood in 1958. — The woman gestures mid-walk as a 1950s sedan sits along the curb behind her.

Side profile of the woman walking past a lawn with the parked sedan centered in the background.

The woman continues down the South Bend sidewalk, framed by a residential house, lawn, small trees, and a parked 1950s sedan. — Woman continues walking along the sidewalk in front of a lawn and mid-century parked car.

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