Kansas City Missouri-1959: A Man On A Boat Rescues A Man In The Water While

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

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A Man On A Boat Rescues A Man In The Water While — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic rescue at sea. A man in a blue shirt and cap leans over the side of a boat, reaching down to pull another man from the churning ocean. The rescuer grips a rope while the man in the water, wearing a life vest, is pulled toward the vessel. The scene unfolds under overcast skies, with rough waves crashing against the boat's hull. The grainy, color-bleached footage and dark film borders evoke a raw, authentic 1950s home movie aesthetic. This archival clip offers powerful footage for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 123143126

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s archival requests needing brief home-movie footage of a small-boat water rescue or emergency response scene.
Period detail: The frames show color 8mm-era home-movie texture, period casual clothing, and a small boat, while the listed 1959 Kansas City location is not visually identifiable here.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the tense, unstaged moment as one man leans from the boat and another is pulled through churning water by a rope.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a boat rail and hull edge, rough water, a rescuer in a blue shirt and cap, a man in the water, rope lines, spray, dark frame borders, and handheld framing.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, heavy grain, blue-gray exposure, gate edges, and handheld motion that give the rescue scene authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, emergency beat, maritime cutaway, or memory fragment within a sequence about rescue, boating, danger, or family-film records.
Historical context: The footage shows a mid-century leisure or boating setting where bystanders or companions appear to assist during a water incident, without enough visual evidence to identify the vessel or event.
Research note: People and partial faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed, and the absence of visible brands does not resolve copyright or other contextual rights questions.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1950s 8mm boat rescue, vintage home movie man overboard, old color film water emergency, and amateur footage rope rescue from boat.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then with other 1959 or Kansas City-listed material if verified, and then with boating, water rescue, or emergency-response footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 8mm home-movie frame showing a man on a boat reaching down toward a person in rough water, with dark film borders visible. — A man on the boat reaches toward a person in the water as waves break against the hull.

A rough 8mm frame shows a man in the water near the side of a boat as another man in blue braces near the rail. — The person in the water is drawn closer to the boat while the rescuer steadies himself above.

A man in a blue shirt and cap leans from the boat rail toward a partly submerged person, with grainy 8mm borders framing the scene. — The rescuer leans farther over the boat as the person in the water moves along the hull.

Final 8mm frame shows the man in the water beside the boat, with a rope crossing the water and the rescuer positioned above the rail. — The man in the water is alongside the boat while the rescuer remains braced at the rail.

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