Kansas City Missouri-1959: Our Green House Behind The Drive

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

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Our Green House Behind The Drive — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched suburban yard in Kansas City, Missouri. Lush green shrubs and flowering bushes with red and pink blossoms frame a light-colored house behind a quiet driveway. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural camera movement, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American family life. The scene is peaceful, with no people visible, focusing on the tranquil garden and residential setting.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123144441

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 Kansas City home-movie yard footage for documentary or museum projects needing a brief mid-century suburban residential exterior insert.
Period detail: The light house exterior, driveway edge, lawn, and flowering shrubs may show ordinary late-1950s suburban landscaping rather than a public landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged value of a family camera pausing on a familiar yard and house approach with no people performing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale house wall, driveway, green lawn, bare soil, shrubs, flowering bushes with red or pink blooms, and tree foliage.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, saturated greens, dark frame edges, visible grain, and slight handheld variation typical of amateur color home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet cutaway, establishing insert, memory beat, or transition between family-life scenes set around a suburban home.
Historical context: As a brief residential exterior, the footage documents domestic landscaping and driveway frontage in a Kansas City family-film context.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are visible or indicated, but copyright, location, and private-property context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1959 Kansas City 8mm home movie yard, mid-century suburban house exterior, driveway garden footage, and flowering shrubs.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then Kansas City or 1959 residential exteriors, then broader mid-century home garden scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Kansas City home-movie frame showing a sunlit yard, green shrubs, red blossoms, a driveway edge, and a pale house exterior. — Sunlit residential yard with flowering shrubs beside a driveway.

1959 Kansas City frame of a quiet residential yard with leafy shrubs, small red or pink blooms, lawn, and driveway frontage. — Dense shrubs and blossoms in front of a light-colored house wall.

1959 Kansas City home-movie view of a house-side garden, with shrubs, blossoms, lawn, soil, and a driveway in soft 8mm color. — House-side garden with flowering shrubs and a driveway edge.

1959 Kansas City residential exterior frame with flowering shrubs, green lawn, pale house wall, and driveway seen through dark 8mm frame edges. — Flowering shrubs and lawn in front of a light house exterior.

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