York Nebraska-1958: Is This House We Are Driving By Being Torn Down Or Built

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

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Is This House We Are Driving By Being Torn Down Or Built — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a blurry, atmospheric view from a moving vehicle in York, Nebraska. The footage shows a dilapidated house with a damaged roof, surrounded by bare trees and overgrown land under a gray, overcast sky. The blue-tinted, grainy image and shaky camera movement evoke a sense of decay and mystery, suggesting a forgotten or abandoned property. The perspective from inside the car, with the window frame visible, adds to the nostalgic, candid feel of this archival Super 8 clip.

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: 127271939

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s rural or small-town Nebraska inserts needing a moving-car glimpse of an old or damaged house in a home-movie context.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-century roadside view, with bare trees, open land, and a house silhouette seen through a car window in York, Nebraska metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged passenger perspective, with the camera catching a brief, shaky look at a roadside structure while the car passes.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark car-window frame, blurred roadway edge, bare trees, open ground, a distant house with an uneven roofline, and blue-gray sky.
Film character: The 8mm image has blue color shift, soft focus, gate edges, grain, and handheld vibration that give the scene a fragile home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short transition, memory beat, rural roadside cutaway, or ambiguous establishing insert for decay, travel, or change.
Historical context: The scene offers a small visual record of roadside land and housing conditions, but the frames do not confirm whether the house is being built, abandoned, or demolished.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright and any property-related permissions should be assessed separately for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 8mm York Nebraska drive-by house footage, vintage home movie roadside view, and blurry rural small-town exterior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel driving footage, then other York, Nebraska 1958 clips, then broader 1950s roadside houses or rural travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 York, Nebraska home-movie frame showing a distant, blurry house beyond a car window and roadside ground. — A distant house passes behind the dark edge of the car window.

A soft 1958 York, Nebraska roadside view shows a distant house silhouette, bare trees, and the dark interior edge of a moving car. — The house remains visible through the car window as the vehicle moves past.

A heavily blurred home-movie frame from the York, Nebraska drive-by, with car interior darkness, bare branches, and roadside forms. — Motion blur briefly obscures the roadside scene from the passenger view.

1958 York, Nebraska frame showing the roadside, a partial house at the right edge, bare vegetation, and the dark lower edge of the car window. — The house slips to the edge of frame as the car continues past.

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