Kansas City Missouri-1959: Woman With Friends And People Riding A Roller Coaster

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

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Woman With Friends And People Riding A Roller Coaster — Clip Details

A young woman in a light blue sweater smiles as she rides a colorful roller coaster at Parque Colon in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1959. The 8mm home movie captures her joyful expression and the ride's red, yellow, and purple car ascending the track under a cloudy sky. Other riders are visible in the car, and the iconic park sign looms above. Shot on vintage 8mm film, the footage shows natural grain and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American amusement park experience.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123141057

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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

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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: 1950s 8mm amusement-park footage for productions needing a brief home-movie view of riders on a roller coaster in Kansas City, Missouri.
Period detail: The colorful coaster car, simple park sign reading Parque Colon, and handheld 8mm look support a late-1950s amusement-park setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged visitor perspective as friends and other riders pass the camera on the coaster under an overcast sky.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a young woman in a light sweater, red and yellow coaster cars, the Parque Colon sign, riders, track structure, poles, cloudy sky, and film frame edges.
Film character: Natural 8mm grain, soft exposure, slight motion blur, and contact-print framing give the clip a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short memory beat, amusement-park insert, transition from family scenes, or cutaway for mid-century leisure.
Historical context: The footage shows casual public recreation and group amusement-ride activity in a documented Kansas City setting without supporting broader claims about the park.
Research note: People and faces are visible, and the Parque Colon sign appears, so likeness, trademark, and location identification should be reviewed separately from footage copyright.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1959 Kansas City 8mm roller coaster, Parque Colon amusement ride, vintage home movie amusement park, and 1950s friends on coaster.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel amusement-park scenes, then Kansas City or 1959 material, then broader 1950s fairground and roller-coaster footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Young woman in a light sweater rides a red and yellow coaster car at Parque Colon in 1959 Kansas City footage. — A young woman rides in a colorful coaster car as the camera catches her from close range.

Riders in a red and yellow coaster car appear beneath the Parque Colon sign in Kansas City home-movie footage. — Two riders pass under the Parque Colon sign on the roller coaster track.

A coaster car carrying several riders moves toward the camera below the Parque Colon sign in 1959 Kansas City footage. — Riders approach the camera beneath the amusement-park sign and overhead frame.

Several riders, including a woman near the front, pass under the Parque Colon sign on the roller coaster in Kansas City footage. — A group of riders moves through the frame under the Parque Colon sign.

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