Kansas USA-1958: Hunter Shoots Bird Dead

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit

Fills requests for 1950s rural American hunting culture; suited to editorial use in documentaries on postwar Midwest life, conservation history, or regional identity.

Period detail

Men's khaki hunting jackets, trousers and flat caps, alongside a flat Kansas dirt road and dry harvested fields, are consistent with late-1950s rural Great Plains.

Home-movie behavior

An amateur photographer captured fellow hunters moving around and posing near their downed game on a rural road, giving the footage a candid, unscripted quality.

What appears in frame

Gravel rural road, two downed pheasants, three to four men in hunting attire, flat open farmland, utility poles in background, rifle, hard midday shadows.

Film character

Warm color palette with moderate film grain and soft mid-distance focus; strong midday exposure produces bright highlights with some detail loss in lighter areas.

Edit role

Works as a short cutaway or insert in documentaries on postwar rural life or hunting traditions; also functions as a memory beat in regional or personal history programs.

Historical context

Pheasant hunting was a widespread rural pastime across the Great Plains in the postwar decades, often filmed as a communal social event and rite of outdoor life.

Research note

Adult faces are partially visible in multiple frames and individual identification may be possible; model releases should be assessed before editorial or commercial use.

Research search match

1950s American hunting footage, rural Kansas 8mm home movie, postwar pheasant hunt, mid-century Midwest outdoor life, vintage hunting film.

Archive pairing path

Pair first with other clips from the same reel, then with 1950s Kansas or Great Plains rural footage, then with mid-century American hunting or outdoor-life clips.