French Lick Indiana-1958: A Family Spending The Holidays At The Hotel And Are

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

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A Family Spending The Holidays At The Hotel And Are — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a family vacation at a grand hotel in French Lick, Indiana. The footage shows the hotel's exterior with a classic pink car parked under a green awning, lush green lawns, and period street lamps. A young couple strolls across the lawn, dressed in 1950s casual wear, while a man in a patterned shirt appears in a close-up. The warm, slightly faded colors and natural film grain evoke a nostalgic, authentic mid-century American holiday atmosphere.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127493701

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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: Useful for 1950s American vacation, resort-hotel, and family travel sequences needing authentic 8mm home-movie material from French Lick, Indiana.
Period detail: Visible era clues include mid-century clothing, a pastel car, formal hotel frontage, street lamps, landscaped lawns, and the soft color response of 1958 amateur 8mm film.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor perspective, moving between hotel views, lawn activity, and close passersby as family or companions occupy the frame.
What appears in frame: The frames show a hotel entrance with green awning, a pink car, lawns, trees, lamp posts, seated or strolling adults, and a close-up of a man in casual clothing.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, slight color fading, gate edges, contact-sheet softness, and handheld framing that support its home-movie archive character.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a vacation-memory insert, resort exterior cutaway, mid-century travel transition, or brief social-life beat within a family archive sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually situates leisure travel around a large Indiana hotel, with adults gathered outdoors in landscaped public-facing grounds.
Research note: People and recognizable faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and any property considerations should be checked separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1950s French Lick Indiana hotel footage, 8mm family vacation, mid-century resort exterior, and vintage American holiday home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1958 French Lick hotel material, then broader 1950s family vacation or resort-lawn footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 French Lick hotel exterior with a green awning, landscaped lawn, trees, lamps, and a pink car near the entrance. — Hotel frontage and curbside car seen across the landscaped lawn.

French Lick hotel exterior in 1958, framed by trees and lawn, with a green awning, street lamps, and a pink car. — Tree-framed hotel entrance with green awning and parked car.

Adults relax and walk on the landscaped grounds near the French Lick hotel, with 1950s clothing and cars visible behind them. — Adults on the hotel lawn during a mid-century vacation moment.

Close passerby view of an adult man in casual 1950s clothing on the French Lick hotel grounds. — A man passes close to the camera on the hotel grounds.

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