United States-1955: Antique Open Red Touring Car Carrying Riders Across a Rodeo Arena

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Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationUnited States
Duration4s
Price$149 USD
Collection1955 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1955 · United States · Reel 9efb3bcb contains 2 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

rodeo
antique automobiles
spectator events
novelty act
Western culture
mid-century leisure
home movies

Shot type: wide
Camera: pan · handheld
Setting: outdoor · rodeo arena with a low perimeter wall and a grandstand behind
Time and weather: day · summer · overcast or hazy daylight
Lighting: flat, diffuse daylight
People: 3 · Three adult riders in an open car, two in front wearing light wide-brimmed hats and one in the rear seat; distant spectators faintly visible in the grandstand.
Vehicles: antique open touring car
Objects: spoked wheels · radiator · arena wall · vertical posts · white rail · grandstand
Colors: faded red · blue-grey · muted green · deep indigo
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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The antique red touring car crosses the arena with its driver and passengers in view.
The camera pans with the car past the low arena wall as foreground posts slide by.
The car angles toward the camera, showing its radiator, spoked wheels and three riders, with grandstand spectators above the wall.
The car keeps rolling across the arena as the shot ends.

Antique Open Red Touring Car Carrying Riders Across a... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1955, home movie footage shows an antique open red touring car rolling slowly across a rodeo arena. A driver and a front passenger in light, wide-brimmed hats sit up front with a third rider in the rear seat, while a low arena wall and a faint grandstand crowd pass behind. The single handheld shot pans to follow the vehicle, framed through thin vertical posts and a white rail in the foreground. The faded colour reversal film shows a blue-magenta cast, soft focus and grain.

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: 4s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001871

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People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1955 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: 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Serves requests for circa 1950s American rodeo or fairground entertainment, especially novelty acts with early automobiles, for documentary, museum and nostalgia productions.
Period detail: The faded colour reversal stock, the hats and the already-antique touring car with spoked wheels may show a 1950s rodeo presenting an early automobile as a curiosity.
Home-movie behavior: Shot by a spectator in the stands, the clip records what caught a family filmmaker's eye between rodeo events rather than a staged or professional view.
What appears in frame: An open red touring car with a tall radiator and spoked wheels, three riders in light hats, a low arena wall, a faint grandstand crowd, thin foreground posts and a white rail.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, a strong blue-magenta fade and a stray hair crossing the frame give the clip an authentic projected 8mm texture.
Edit role: Works as a cutaway or light-hearted transition within a rodeo sequence, or as a short nostalgic memory beat.
Historical context: The clip shows an antique car driven before a rodeo crowd, which suggests that by mid-century early automobiles were presented as entertainment at Western-style events.
Research note: The riders and spectators are distant and unidentified, and the arena venue is unnamed; copyright in the film, likeness of any person shown and venue property rights are separate matters to assess before use.
Research search match: antique car rodeo arena 8mm, 1950s rodeo home movie, vintage touring car novelty act, faded colour rodeo footage
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the rodeo calf roping chase clip from the same reel, then with the circa 1955 jumping-arena fragment C0008 (1), then with other rodeo and antique car footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Antique open red touring car with riders in hats crossing a rodeo arena in the United States, circa 1955, 8mm home movie — An antique touring car carries riders across the rodeo arena, circa 1955.
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Driver and passenger in an open red antique car passing a low wall at a US rodeo arena, circa 1955, faded 8mm film — The camera pans to follow the open car past the arena wall.
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Antique touring car with three riders and a tall radiator in a rodeo arena, grandstand crowd behind, United States, circa 1955 — Three riders aboard as the touring car turns, showing its radiator and spoked wheels.
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Open red antique car with riders crossing a US rodeo arena before a faint grandstand crowd, circa 1955 8mm home movie — The antique car keeps rolling across the arena as the shot ends.
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