Kansas City Missouri-1959: Girl Watching Swan on Lake

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

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Girl Watching Swan on Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a graceful white swan gliding across a calm lake, its reflection rippling in the water. The scene transitions to a park setting where a young girl in a light-colored dress stands near the water's edge, watching the swan. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and a nostalgic color palette typical of mid-century home movies. The natural setting includes trees and greenery, evoking a peaceful, timeless moment from a bygone era.

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: 123143326

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 U.S. home-movie requests needing a quiet park-lake wildlife moment or family-outing cutaway.
Period detail: The color 8mm look, soft focus, formal park planting, and light dress may show late-1950s leisure footage consistent with the supplied 1959 Kansas City metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor perspective, moving from a swan on the lake to a person standing near the water and watching from the park edge.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white swan, rippling lake water, reflected trees, a landscaped bank, palms or tall plantings, a path, and a light-dressed park visitor.
Film character: The footage has pronounced 8mm grain, soft registration, slight exposure fluctuation, muted color, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a gentle insert, transition, nature cutaway, or memory beat within a mid-century family or urban-park sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for recreational park landscapes and casual wildlife observation in a mid-century American home-movie setting.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or audible music are evident, and copyright clearance remains separate from likeness review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 Kansas City 8mm park lake footage, white swan swimming, mid-century home movie nature, and family outing cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1959 Kansas City park or lake scenes, then related home-movie wildlife and family-outing material.

Still Frames From This Clip

White swan glides across rippling lake water in 1959 Kansas City 8mm home-movie footage. — A white swan moves across the lake, its body softened by film grain and water reflection.

A white swan lowers its head into the lake in Kansas City park footage from the supplied 1959 metadata. — The swan bends toward the water as circular ripples spread around it.

A light-dressed park visitor stands near the water beside plantings and a path in 1959 Kansas City home-movie footage. — The view widens to a landscaped park edge with a visitor standing near the lake.

A person stands near a Kansas City park lake, with trees, plantings, and reflections visible in the 1959 8mm frame. — A distant visitor stands by the water as the park path and greenery frame the lake.

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