Kansas City Missouri-1959: Modern Building with Landscaping and Trees

$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

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

Modern Building with Landscaping and Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a front view of a large, modern two-story building in Kansas City, Missouri. The structure features a clean, mid-century design with white stucco walls, large windows, and a flat roof. Lush green landscaping with flowering bushes and a concrete walkway lead to the entrance. The bright blue sky and tropical foliage suggest a warm, sunny day. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical projects.

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: 123144406

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

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

Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1959 Kansas City 8mm exterior view useful for requests needing mid-century institutional or residential architecture and landscaped building cutaways.
Period detail: The flat roofline, white walls, broad windows, and planted frontage may show late-1950s modern building design and maintained suburban-style landscaping.
Home-movie behavior: The brief, handheld view has a visitor-shot quality, observing the building from across a lawn rather than staging activity or people.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a two-story white building, large windows, flat roof edges, green lawn, flowering shrubs, a concrete walkway, and bright blue sky.
Film character: The clip carries saturated 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing that support its home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a short establishing insert, architectural cutaway, transition beat, or memory fragment for 1950s Kansas City settings.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a maintained modern exterior and ornamental landscaping without identifying the building, owner, or specific use.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any building or property permissions should be checked for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1959 Kansas City 8mm building exterior, mid-century modern landscaping, vintage home movie architecture, and 1950s Missouri exterior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1959 Kansas City exteriors, then broader mid-century building and landscaping footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Kansas City home-movie frame showing a white two-story modern building with broad windows, lawn, walkway, and flowering landscaping. — A front lawn and walkway lead toward a white modern building with planted shrubs.

1959 Kansas City exterior view of a white modern building set behind a maintained lawn, concrete walk, shrubs, and small trees. — The building facade remains centered behind the lawn, walkway, and flowering plantings.

1959 Kansas City 8mm frame with the modern building facade closer in view, showing windows, shaded entrance area, lawn, and flowering shrubs. — A slightly closer handheld frame emphasizes the facade, front lawn, and planted beds.

1959 Kansas City home-movie frame showing the white modern exterior, green lawn, flower beds, walkway, and dark window bays. — The final frame holds on the landscaped frontage and white modern building exterior.

Visually Similar Clips