Kansas City Missouri-1959: A View Of A Dark Blue Isolated Forest With A Small Creek

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationKansas City, Missouri, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 Kansas City Missouri

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A View Of A Dark Blue Isolated Forest With A Small Creek — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a moody, isolated landscape in Kansas City, Missouri. The scene unfolds with a dark blue-tinted view of a forested hillside under a twilight sky, a small creek winding through the foreground. Silhouetted figures and distant vehicles appear in the middle ground, adding subtle life to the quiet, atmospheric setting. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and edge distortion, evoking a sense of nostalgia and mystery. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or projects exploring mid-century Americana and personal memories.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123140786

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: 1959 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 City, Missouri, 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: 1959 8mm home-movie landscape footage suited for documentary inserts needing a dark rural or semi-rural Missouri creek view.
Period detail: The frame may show a mid-century roadside or park-edge setting, with small signs, a simple creek crossing, distant cars, and no clearly identifiable people.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged home-movie observation, holding briefly on a dim outdoor scene rather than presenting a formal scenic view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark wooded hillside, bright twilight sky, creek or wet ground, roadside signs, a small bridge or paved edge, distant vehicles, and heavy film borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows blue color shift, soft focus, coarse grain, exposure falloff, gate edges, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief mood-setting cutaway, rural transition, memory fragment, or atmospheric insert between family or travel scenes.
Historical context: As home-movie footage from Kansas City, Missouri, the view suggests a quiet outdoor edge of everyday mid-century life without enough detail to identify a specific site.
Research note: No faces, logos, or readable brands are apparent, but copyright, location, and any property permissions should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1959 8mm Missouri creek landscape, dark blue home movie hillside, vintage roadside creek view, and mid-century outdoor cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent scenes from the same reel, then with other Kansas City 1959 footage, and finally with moody creek, roadside, forest, or rural landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Kansas City home-movie frame showing a dark wooded hillside, bright blue sky, wet foreground, and soft 8mm borders. — A dim creek-side landscape sits below a dark wooded hill at twilight.

1959 Kansas City frame with a silhouetted hillside, wet creek-side ground, roadside signs, and distant vehicles in soft 8mm color. — Roadside signs and distant vehicles appear beside a shadowed creek landscape.

Blue-shifted 1959 Kansas City home-movie frame showing wet ground, a hillside, two roadside signs, and small vehicle lights. — Vehicle lights pass near two signs at the edge of the dark creek-side scene.

1959 Kansas City 8mm frame showing a dark hill, bright blue sky, two roadside signs, wet ground, and distant vehicle lights. — A dark roadside creek view ends with signs and small vehicle lights under a blue sky.

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