French Lick Indiana-1958: A Parked Tour Bus In Front Of A Stone Wall

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationFrench Lick, Indiana, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 French Lick Indiana

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A Parked Tour Bus In Front Of A Stone Wall — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a parked tour bus at French Lick, Indiana. The scene features a classic open-sided tour vehicle with passengers, framed by a stone wall and ornate lampposts. Lush green trees and an American flag are visible in the background under bright daylight. The footage exhibits natural film grain and color shifts typical of 1950s Super 8 home movies, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical projects.

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: 127493397

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 2028 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: twenty grand
Reel-level year note: 1958
Reel-level location note: french lick, indiana
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: French Lick, Indiana, 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: 1950s Indiana home-movie footage for productions needing a brief travel, resort-town, or tour-transportation cutaway.
Period detail: The open-sided tour bus, stone wall, lampposts, flagpole, and color 8mm look may show mid-century visitor transportation in French Lick.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, observing a parked tour bus and grounds from across a wall rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a parked tour bus, stone wall, ornate lampposts, flagpole, trees, lawn, fence, and small distant passengers.
Film character: The footage carries dense 8mm grain, blue-green color shift, soft focus, and slight handheld framing consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a travel insert, location transition, transportation cutaway, or short memory beat within a 1950s Midwest sequence.
Historical context: The scene suggests organized sightseeing or resort-area transportation, with public grounds and civic landscaping visible behind the stone wall.
Research note: People appear small and indistinct, so likeness review may still be needed; no visible logos are clear, and copyright clearance is separate from depicted subjects.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 French Lick Indiana home movie, 1950s tour bus footage, vintage 8mm resort transportation, and Midwest travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel French Lick material, then 1958 Indiana travel footage, then broader 1950s tour bus, park, resort, or roadside tourism scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 French Lick, Indiana view of a parked open-sided tour bus framed by a stone wall, lampposts, trees, and lawn. — A parked tour bus sits behind a low stone wall on landscaped grounds.

The French Lick tour bus remains parked near a curved stone wall, with lampposts, trees, and a flagpole in the background. — The bus is shown from a slightly shifted angle beside the stone wall and lampposts.

A side view shows the open-sided bus along the wall, with a fence, lawn, flagpole, and leafy trees behind it in French Lick. — The camera catches the bus side-on as it sits near the landscaped wall.

The final frame shows the bus partly cropped at right, with a stone wall, American flag, lamppost, fence, and shaded trees visible. — The bus moves out of framing or is partly cropped as the flag and grounds remain visible.

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