Florida-1945: White Houses with Palm Trees and Striped Awnings

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Year1945
Decade1940s
LocationFlorida, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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White Houses with Palm Trees and Striped Awnings — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1945, this vintage home movie captures a quiet residential scene in Florida. The footage shows small white houses with green shutters and striped awnings, surrounded by palm trees swaying gently in the wind. The camera pans slowly across the buildings, revealing a calm, sun-drenched neighborhood with lush greenery. The film exhibits natural grain, slight blurriness, and authentic 1940s color tones, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American life. Ideal for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 127464640

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 1044 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: 200p, blue hole
Reel-level year note: 1945
Reel-level location note: florida
Date: 1945 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: Florida, 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 1940s Florida residential establishing shots in documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences about everyday American neighborhoods.
Period detail: The white stucco-like houses, green shutters, striped awnings, chimneys, and palms may show mid-century Florida residential design visible in the 1945 home-movie record.
Home-movie behavior: The brief pan feels like an unstaged home-movie observation of a quiet street or courtyard, focused on buildings and weather rather than posed activity.
What appears in frame: Visible details include white house facades, green shutters, striped awnings, chimneys, palm fronds, shrubs, windows, and sunlit exterior walls.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, dust marks, mild exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, location transition, memory beat, or neighborhood insert within a mid-century Florida sequence.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for modest residential architecture and subtropical landscaping without showing identifiable people or public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but residential exteriors and copyright status should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1945 Florida home movie houses, 1940s residential street, 8mm palm trees and awnings, and mid-century neighborhood exterior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1945 Florida exteriors, then broader themes of mid-century homes, palms, and quiet streets.

Still Frames From This Clip

1945 Florida home-movie frame showing a white residential exterior with green shutters, shrubs, windows, and a partial striped awning. — White residential facade with shutters and shrubs seen in soft 8mm color.

1945 Florida frame with a white house exterior, green door, striped awning, dark window opening, and palm fronds nearby. — Striped awning and green door on a white Florida house exterior.

1945 Florida home-movie view of white residential buildings with awnings, palm trees bending in wind, shrubs, and a walkway. — Palm trees and awnings frame a quiet white residential row.

1945 Florida frame showing a white house corner with chimney, striped awning, green door, window, shrubs, and soft 8mm grain. — White house corner with chimney, striped awning, and green door.

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