Kansas City Missouri-1959: White Art Deco Building with Flagpole

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

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White Art Deco Building with Flagpole — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a white Art Deco-style building with clean lines and large windows, set against a bright blue sky. A manicured lawn and low hedges frame the structure, with a flagpole standing prominently in the foreground. The footage, viewed through a dark border suggesting a projector or window frame, shows subtle camera movement, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century American architecture and suburban tranquility.

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: 123144464

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: Useful for 1950s editorial requests needing an exterior cutaway of mid-century civic, institutional, or apartment-like architecture in Kansas City, Missouri.
Period detail: The flat white facade, horizontal window bands, flagpole, clipped lawn, and 8mm color stock may show late-1950s American modern civic or institutional design.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a distance with a casual visitor-shot perspective, treating the building frontage and grounds as a remembered place rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white multi-story building, rows of dark windows, a flagpole, lawn, sidewalk, low hedges, blue sky, and dark contact-print borders.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, saturated sky, slight exposure variation, visible frame edges, and gentle handheld reframing.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, architectural cutaway, location transition, or quiet memory beat within a mid-century Kansas City sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects a maintained postwar urban or suburban exterior with formal landscaping and clean-lined architecture, without visible public activity or signage.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable signs are visible, but building identity, property status, and copyright permissions should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 Kansas City 8mm building exterior, mid-century white Art Deco facade, manicured lawn flagpole, and vintage institutional architecture footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Kansas City 1959 exteriors, then broader 1950s American architecture, lawns, streetscapes, or civic-building material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Kansas City home-movie frame showing a white mid-century building facade with rows of windows, lawn, hedges, sidewalk, and flagpole. — White building frontage with clipped lawn and flagpole under a blue sky.

1959 Kansas City exterior view of a white mid-century building with horizontal window rows, a flagpole, lawn, hedges, and shaded lower entrance. — Building facade and grounds seen through dark film-frame borders.

1959 Kansas City home-movie frame with the white building cropped closer, showing window bands, flagpole, sidewalk, lawn, and hedges. — Closer cropped view of the building frontage and landscaped grounds.

1959 Kansas City frame showing a partly cropped white mid-century facade with rows of windows, flagpole, lawn, hedges, and clear sky. — Panned view across the white facade, flagpole, lawn, and hedges.

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