York Nebraska-1958: Vintage Car Driving Down Dirt Road In Daytime Away From

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

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Vintage Car Driving Down Dirt Road In Daytime Away From — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a classic American scene: a vintage car driving down a rural dirt road in York, Nebraska. The footage shows a quiet countryside with modest houses, bare trees, and utility poles lining the road under an overcast sky. The car moves steadily away from the camera, kicking up dust on the unpaved surface. The image exhibits the characteristic grain, color fading, and slight blurriness of Super 8 film, evoking a strong sense of mid-century Americana and nostalgia. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or retro-themed content.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127271827

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 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: Useful for requests needing 1950s rural Midwestern road travel, small-town outskirts, or transitional driving footage for documentary and historical productions.
Period detail: The visible older sedan, unpaved road, utility poles, modest houses, bare trees, and subdued color home-movie stock support a late-1950s rural Nebraska setting as described by the metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged viewpoint of a home-movie camera following or observing a car as it drives away along a quiet country road.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a vintage car, pale dirt road, roadside grass, utility poles, fence lines, bare trees, distant houses, and an overcast sky.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, blue-gray color fading, visible grain, gate edges, and slight exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, rural travel transition, memory beat, or establishing cutaway for mid-century small-town America.
Historical context: The footage visually situates automobile travel on an unpaved road at the edge of a small rural community without making claims beyond the visible road, homes, fields, and utility infrastructure.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any property-related use should still be reviewed for the intended project.
Research search match: Search phrases this clip may match include 1958 York Nebraska 8mm rural road, vintage car driving away on dirt road, and 1950s Midwest home movie countryside.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then other York, Nebraska or 1958 clips, and then broader rural Midwest road, vintage car, and small-town home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In York, Nebraska in 1958, a vintage car moves away from the camera along a dirt road bordered by houses, bare trees, grass, and utility poles. — Car recedes along a rural road outside modest homes.

The 1958 York, Nebraska home-movie frame shows the car continuing away on the unpaved road past utility poles, bare trees, and scattered houses. — The car continues down the unpaved road.

The car appears small in the distance on a rural York, Nebraska road, with roadside grass, fencing, utility poles, bare trees, and houses visible under a gray sky. — Distant car on a rural road edge.

Near the end of the York, Nebraska clip, the car is almost out of view while the frame holds the road shoulder, fence line, utility pole, fields, and distant houses. — Roadside view as the car leaves the frame.

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