Nebraska-1956: Blue Car Speeds Past Yellow House

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Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationNebraska, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1951 Nebraska

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Blue Car Speeds Past Yellow House — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1956, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban scene in Nebraska. The footage, viewed through a window frame, shows a pale yellow house with white siding and a small porch. A blue car speeds past on a road bordering green fields and a ditch. The image has the characteristic grain and color shift of mid-century home movies, with a soft focus and muted tones. This archival clip evokes a sense of mid-century Americana and everyday life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127403300

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1956 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: Nebraska, 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

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 Nebraska home-movie requests needing suburban roadside atmosphere, passing traffic, or everyday residential cutaways.
Period detail: The pale siding, small stoop, Venetian blinds, road edge, open fields, and mid-century blue car may show a modest 1950s residential setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from behind a window frame, giving the scene an unstaged household viewpoint as a car passes outside.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale yellow house, porch steps, window blinds, a divided window frame, green lawn, roadside ditch, open fields, and a blue car.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, edge falloff, and a handheld home-movie steadiness typical of family-film scans.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief residential insert, rural-suburban transition, memory beat, or establishing cutaway for mid-century everyday life.
Historical context: The clip gives visual context for postwar domestic surroundings in Nebraska without proving a specific town, family, or event from the frames alone.
Research note: Review is advised for copyright status plus any likeness or property concerns, since a distant person and identifiable house exterior may be visible.
Research search match: Searches such as 1950s Nebraska home movie, 8mm suburban house, blue car passing road, and mid-century residential cutaway fit this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Nebraska 1956 material, then other 1950s home-movie views of houses, roads, lawns, and passing cars.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 Nebraska 8mm frame seen through a window, showing a blue car on a road beyond a green lawn and open fields. — A blue car passes along the road outside, viewed through a dark divided window frame.

1956 Nebraska home-movie frame through a window, with pale siding, green lawn, road, ditch, and fields beyond. — The car has moved out of view, leaving the house edge, lawn, road, and fields framed by the window.

1956 Nebraska frame showing a pale house exterior, small steps, window blinds, lawn, and distant field through a divided window. — A neighboring house exterior fills the lower frame, with steps, blinds, lawn, and field beyond.

1956 Nebraska 8mm frame of a pale residential exterior with door, window blinds, small stoop, lawn, and road beyond. — The view settles on the house door, window blinds, and small stoop, still divided by the dark window frame.

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