Kansas City Missouri-1959: A Man Trims Bushes In Front Of A Large Building

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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 Trims Bushes In Front Of A Large Building — Clip Details

A man in a white shirt and hat trims bushes in front of a large, white Art Deco-style building in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1959. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures a quiet moment of lawn maintenance under a clear blue sky. The building features symmetrical windows and a flagpole, with manicured green lawns and flowering shrubs. The scene exudes mid-century American suburban life, with natural film grain and color saturation characteristic of vintage home movies.

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: 123144477

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 Kansas City or mid-century institutional exterior requests needing quiet groundskeeping, civic-campus, or everyday labor footage.
Period detail: The white horizontal building, flagpole, manicured lawn, and color 8mm look support a late-1950s public or institutional exterior, with exact building identity unverified.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from a distance as a man trims hedges, preserving an unstaged home-movie view of routine outdoor maintenance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white multi-story building, blue sky, flagpoles, lawn, hedge rows, flowering shrubs, windows, and a groundskeeper near the curb.
Film character: The clip has saturated 8mm color, soft focus, mild gate weave, visible grain, and contact-sheet framing that give it clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, location-establishing insert, or quiet memory beat between broader Kansas City or 1950s neighborhood scenes.
Historical context: The scene records maintained grounds around a large mid-century building, suggesting everyday care of institutional or residential property without identifying the site.
Research note: A person is visible at distance, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, property, and location permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 Kansas City 8mm exterior, man trimming hedges, mid-century building lawn maintenance, and vintage home movie groundskeeping.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Kansas City 1959 exteriors, then broader 1950s lawn care, civic buildings, and everyday labor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A 1959 Kansas City exterior shows a white multi-story building, flagpole, lawn, and hedge in soft 8mm color. — White building facade with lawn, hedge, and flagpole in the foreground.

A white Kansas City building exterior appears across a trimmed lawn, with flagpoles, windows, hedges, and a recessed entrance. — Building exterior with manicured lawn, flagpoles, and hedges.

The building entrance and upper facade are seen behind a trimmed lawn, hedge row, flagpole, and flowering shrubs in 8mm footage. — Entrance side of the white building with hedge and lawn in front.

A man in a white shirt and hat trims shrubs near the curb before a white Kansas City building, filmed from a distant 8mm viewpoint. — Groundskeeper trimming shrubs in front of the building.

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