Kansas USA-1958: Clark County Courthouse Facade And Entrance

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationKansas, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Kansas

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Clark County Courthouse Facade And Entrance — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Kansas USA in 1958 shows the Clark County Courthouse. The clip opens with a low-angle view of the building's facade, highlighting its light-colored brick construction and the engraved name above the windows. The camera then pans down to focus on the main entrance, featuring double glass doors with vertical bars and flanked by tall, fluted columns. The film exhibits characteristic grain, slight blurriness, and dark borders, capturing a quiet, historic moment of a public building in the mid-20th century.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122640389

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1958 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: Kansas, 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 editorial requests for 1950s American civic architecture; suits documentary, local history, and education productions needing a county seat exterior.
Period detail: The cream brick modernist facade, rectilinear multi-pane windows, and institutional engraved lettering are consistent with mid-20th-century American civic construction.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from a visitor's vantage, the camera deliberately records the building's identifying signage before tilting down to document the entrance — a purposeful civic record rather than casual snapshot.
What appears in frame: Cream brick courthouse facade, engraved 'Clark County Court...' lettering, rectangular upper-story windows, clear blue sky, double glass entrance doors, vertical bar transom grille, fluted white columns, and concrete entry steps.
Film character: The 8mm color stock delivers warm, slightly saturated tones with characteristic dark vignette borders and mild edge softness, lending the footage an authentic mid-century home-movie texture.
Edit role: Works as an establishing exterior or insert cutaway for civic, legal, or small-town America sequences; the natural facade-to-entrance move supplies a built-in edit point.
Historical context: A county seat courthouse exterior captured in 1958 documents mid-century American civic infrastructure and institutional architectural conventions of the post-war period.
Research note: No people or commercial signage are visible; the courthouse is a public building exterior, but production legal should confirm any clearance status before asserting cleared use.
Research search match: Researchers may query 1950s Kansas courthouse, mid-century county seat exterior, small-town American government building, or 8mm color civic architecture footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same Kansas 1958 reel; then with 1950s Midwest civic or main-street exteriors; then with courthouse or county-government documentary sequences.

Still Frames From This Clip

Clark County Courthouse, Kansas, 1958 — 8mm low-angle shot of the cream brick upper facade showing engraved institutional lettering and multi-pane windows. — Clark County Courthouse upper facade and engraved name, Kansas, 1958.

Clark County Courthouse, Kansas, 1958 — second moment of the 8mm facade shot, engraved 'Clark Coun...' lettering and rectangular windows visible. — Clark County Courthouse facade during camera pan, Kansas, 1958.

Clark County Courthouse main entrance, Kansas, 1958 — 8mm shot of double glass doors with decorative bar transom, fluted white columns, and concrete steps. — Main entrance, Clark County Courthouse, Kansas, 1958.

Clark County Courthouse entrance detail, Kansas, 1958 — 8mm framing of double glass doors, decorative transom, fluted columns, and flanking ground-floor window. — Clark County Courthouse entrance detail, Kansas, 1958.

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