Las Vegas-1958: Colorful Diamond-Patterned Building and Palm Trees

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationLas Vegas, Nevada, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Las Vegas

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Colorful Diamond-Patterned Building and Palm Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched view of a mid-century modern building in Las Vegas. The structure features a distinctive colorful diamond-patterned facade in red, yellow, blue, and white, with a jagged roofline. Lush green grass and tall palm trees frame the scene under a clear blue sky. A few people walk across the lawn, adding life to the retro architectural setting. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and lens vignetting, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific 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: 127495862

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 1831 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1958-1959
Reel-level location note: las vegas,flagstaff
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: Las Vegas, Nevada, 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 Las Vegas or mid-century leisure-era architecture sequences needing real 8mm exterior footage with people in an unstaged public setting.
Period detail: The colorful diamond facade, low modernist roofline, manicured lawn, and palm trees support a late-1950s resort or civic-building visual context in Las Vegas.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, briefly observing the building and lawn as pedestrians cross through the frame.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a low modern building, multicolor diamond wall panels, tall palms, green lawn, shaded walkway, blue sky, and a few distant pedestrians.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, color shift, gate shadows, and slight handheld framing that mark it as physical home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, Las Vegas transition, architectural cutaway, or memory beat in a 1950s travel sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects a sunlit mid-century built environment with landscaped grounds and casual pedestrian movement, without confirming the building's identity.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no clear logos are visible, and copyright clearance is separate from property or privacy review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Las Vegas 8mm footage, mid-century colorful building exterior, palm trees and lawn, vintage travel home movie, and retro architecture cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Las Vegas exteriors, then broader mid-century resort, travel, and colorful architecture footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Las Vegas home-movie frame showing a low colorful building, lawn, blue sky, and heavy film-edge shadowing. — Colorful mid-century facade seen across a sunlit lawn.

1958 Las Vegas frame with two palms, a colorful diamond facade, shaded lower level, and bright grass in the foreground. — Palm trees and diamond-patterned panels on a mid-century exterior.

1958 Las Vegas exterior with pedestrians crossing a green lawn below palm trees and a colorful mid-century facade. — Distant pedestrians cross the lawn in front of the building.

1958 Las Vegas home-movie frame showing people on a lawn, palms, upper windows, and a multicolor diamond facade. — People walk past palms and a colorful mid-century exterior.

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