United States-1956: Pan Across a Parked Two-Tone Sedan With Its Trunk Open

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Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationUnited States
Duration3s
Price$149 USD
Collection1956 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1956 · United States · Reel 992e4287 contains 11 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

Midcentury motoring
Automobile design
Cottage surroundings
Everyday material culture
Wooded domestic space
Home-movie observation

Shot type: wide
Camera: pan · handheld · Approximately eye level
Setting: outdoor · Wooded cottage grounds with a parked automobile
Time and weather: Daytime · Spring or autumn; sparse foliage does not distinguish them · Dry conditions with no visible precipitation
Lighting: Natural daylight with deep tree shade and bright highlights
People: 0 · No people are clearly visible.
Vehicles: Parked dark sedan with a pale roof, chrome trim and raised trunk lid
Objects: Wooden cottage · Screened porch · White porch railings · Exterior stairs · Small outbuilding · Large tree trunks · Sparse branches · Grass · Post-mounted box
Colors: dark green · black · brown · cream white · gray
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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Tree trunks frame a wooden cottage as part of the sedan enters the lower right.
The rightward pan reveals more of the pale roof and dark side panels.
The car's side fills the foreground and its raised trunk lid becomes visible.
The shot ends with the rear partly hidden by a large tree.

Pan Across a Parked Two-Tone Sedan With Its Trunk Open — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1956 home movie footage shows a parked dark sedan with a pale roof among large trees and wooden cottages. The camera pans right, bringing the automobile's side, chrome trim and rear into view. Its raised trunk lid appears beyond a foreground tree near the end of the shot. A cottage with white porch railings and exterior steps stands behind the vehicle, partly screened by trunks and sparse branches.

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: 3s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800004453

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1956 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: This circa 1956 United States home-movie passage supplies a brief automobile insert for documentaries about motoring, cottage life or everyday surroundings.
Period detail: The pale roof, dark body, prominent chrome molding and rounded bodywork provide the clearest visible clues to the sedan's midcentury styling.
Home-movie behavior: The casual pan records a parked vehicle and its surroundings without posing or staged action.
What appears in frame: A two-tone sedan stands among broad tree trunks, with a raised trunk lid, wooden cottage, white porch railings, exterior steps and a small outbuilding visible.
Film character: Grain, soft focus, subdued color and strong shade-to-highlight contrast accompany a slightly unsteady pan in this capture of projected film.
Edit role: Use the short pan as a vehicle cutaway or a transition into scenes around the cottages.
Historical context: The parked sedan and wooden buildings place period automobile design within an ordinary wooded cottage environment.
Research note: No people or readable logos are discernible; copyright in the film is separate from any property or trademark permissions associated with the visible buildings and automobile.
Research search match: The clip answers searches for circa 1956 two-tone sedan footage, an open car trunk and small-gauge home movies of wooded cottage grounds in the United States.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's woman outside a cottage and children playing beside a cottage, then with circa 1956 United States cottage scenes and other parked period automobiles.

Still Frames From This Clip

In the United States, circa 1956, tree trunks frame a wooden cottage and white porch stairs, with a parked sedan partly visible at lower right. — The opening view places the partially obscured car beside a wooden cottage.
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A parked two-tone sedan with a pale roof appears among tree trunks and cottage buildings in the United States, circa 1956. — The pan brings the pale roof and chrome-trimmed side into view.
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In the United States, circa 1956, the sedan's pale roof and dark side fill the foreground as its open trunk appears behind a tree. — The side profile shows the two-tone finish, bright molding and partly obscured open trunk.
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The closing view in the United States, circa 1956, shows the parked sedan's open trunk partly screened by a broad tree trunk. — The raised trunk lid remains visible beyond the foreground tree as the pan ends.
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