Wheeling Ohio-1957: Tree-Shaped Machine Flashing Yellow and Orange Lights

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationWheeling, Ohio, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 Wheeling Ohio

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Tree-Shaped Machine Flashing Yellow and Orange Lights — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from Wheeling Ohio in 1957 captures a large, tree-shaped machine adorned with glowing orange and yellow lights against a dark night sky. The lights flash rhythmically in distinct horizontal sections, creating a warm, festive glow. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic mid-century holiday atmosphere. This archival clip offers a unique glimpse into a public holiday display from the era, perfect for historical or nostalgic projects.

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: 127278933

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1957 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Wheeling, Ohio, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s U.S. holiday-display requests, especially documentary inserts needing night footage of illuminated public Christmas decorations in Wheeling, Ohio.
Period detail: The frame may show a mid-century outdoor Christmas light installation, with tree-shaped tiers of orange and yellow bulbs visible against a dark sky.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, holding on the glowing display rather than staging action or identifying participants.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tall tree-shaped light structure, rows of warm bulbs, dark night sky, faint blue exposure patches, and soft reflected or duplicated light shapes.
Film character: The 8mm image carries heavy night grain, soft focus, motion blur, and uneven exposure that give the display a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short holiday cutaway, memory beat, transition, or atmospheric insert for mid-century Christmas or public-display sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually places Christmas lighting as a public nighttime spectacle, while the frames do not identify the exact site, sponsor, or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, but users should still review copyright, location context, and any property-display concerns separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1957 Wheeling Ohio Christmas lights, 1950s 8mm holiday display, flashing tree-shaped lights, and vintage home movie night footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Wheeling 1957 material, then broader 1950s Christmas light and public holiday display footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Wheeling, Ohio home-movie frame showing a tall Christmas tree-shaped light display glowing in warm rows at night. — A tall tree-shaped arrangement of warm bulbs glows against the night sky.

1957 Wheeling, Ohio frame with a distant tiered Christmas light form, partly softened by darkness and film blur. — A distant tiered light display appears through dark, grainy night footage.

1957 Wheeling, Ohio frame showing the lower rows of a Christmas tree-shaped light installation with warm bulbs in darkness. — Warm bulbs mark the lower sections of the tree-shaped display.

1957 Wheeling, Ohio frame with scattered orange and yellow bulbs from a Christmas light display fading into the dark frame. — Scattered warm bulbs remain visible as the display recedes into darkness.

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