York Nebraska-1958: Firefighters Spray Water In Front Of Plymouth Motors As

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationYork, Nebraska, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Nebraska

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Firefighters Spray Water In Front Of Plymouth Motors As — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic fire at a Plymouth Motors dealership in York, Nebraska. Firefighters battle the blaze with hoses, spraying water into the smoke-filled storefront as a crowd of onlookers watches from the street. The grainy, blue-tinted footage shows the damaged building and the urgency of the emergency response, offering a raw glimpse into mid-century Americana and community life during a crisis.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127271633

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 1256 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #8
Reel-level year note: 1957-1958
Reel-level location note: new york
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: York, Nebraska, 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: Supports 1950s editorial or documentary requests for small-town emergency response, auto dealership fire coverage, and community spectatorship in archival home-movie footage.
Period detail: The Plymouth Motors storefront sign, mid-century dealership facade, and 8mm color stock support the supplied 1958 York, Nebraska identification.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from within the gathered crowd, with heads and shoulders blocking parts of the scene in an unstaged street-level view of the fire response.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the Plymouth Motors sign, smoke-filled windows, firefighters or responders near hoses, bystanders, damaged storefront framing, and wet pavement.
Film character: The clip has blue-tinted 8mm color, coarse grain, soft focus, dark frame edges, and handheld contact-sheet jitter that give it strong physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, emergency-response cutaway, local-history transition, or memory beat showing public reaction to a commercial fire.
Historical context: The footage shows a crowd assembled outside a branded auto dealership while responders spray water into a smoky storefront, suggesting a public urban or town-center incident.
Research note: People and a Plymouth brand sign are visible, so likeness and trademark or property considerations should be reviewed separately from any copyright status.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 York Nebraska fire, Plymouth Motors dealership fire, 8mm home movie firefighters, crowd watching smoke, and mid-century auto dealership emergency.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then York, Nebraska or 1958 material, and then broader themes of firefighting, small-town disasters, storefronts, and crowd response.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 York, Nebraska 8mm frame showing bystanders facing a smoky Plymouth Motors dealership as responders work near the front windows. — Bystanders gather as smoke and spray fill the Plymouth Motors storefront.

Crowd-level 8mm view of the Plymouth Motors fire in York, Nebraska, with people watching smoke and water spray at the dealership facade. — The camera looks past spectators toward smoke and spray at the dealership front.

8mm frame of the Plymouth Motors sign and smoke-filled windows, with bystanders in the foreground during the 1958 York, Nebraska fire. — Spectators remain close to the scene as smoke obscures the dealership windows.

Late frame from the York, Nebraska Plymouth Motors fire showing smoke, a silhouetted responder or bystander, debris, and crowd heads at the edge. — A figure is silhouetted near the damaged storefront as the crowd watches.

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