Kansas City Missouri-1959: Plane Landing On Water

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

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Plane Landing On Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a small aircraft making a dramatic water landing on a calm blue lake. The plane descends low over the water, creating a splash as it touches down, with a distant shoreline and scattered clouds visible under a bright sky. The footage shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic dark borders of an 8mm home movie, evoking a sense of mid-century aviation history and adventurous travel.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123144617

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.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s editorial or documentary requests needing home-movie views of a small aircraft operating on water near Kansas City, Missouri.
Period detail: The color 8mm look, distant shoreline, and small watercraft-like aircraft may show mid-century recreational aviation, with the 1959 date supported by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a casual observer perspective, watching the aircraft cross a lake from a fixed shoreline or boat-facing vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue lake water, a distant low shoreline, scattered clouds, a small aircraft or seaplane, wake trails, dark 8mm frame borders, and light film dust.
Film character: The scan shows soft focus, visible grain, faded blue color, slight exposure variation, and dark rounded 8mm frame edges that support its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, travel-memory beat, aviation cutaway, or transition into broader 1950s recreation and transport material.
Historical context: The clip visually places small-aircraft activity within a calm open-water setting, but the frames do not identify a specific lake, airfield, event, or organization.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in these frames, though copyright, aircraft identification, and location verification may still require review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 8mm seaplane landing, vintage home movie aircraft on lake, Kansas City Missouri aviation footage, and mid-century water landing film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1959 Kansas City material, then related 1950s aviation, lake recreation, travel, or transport footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 8mm frame from Kansas City, Missouri metadata showing open blue water, a far shoreline, and clouds before the aircraft becomes clear. — Open water and distant shoreline establish the lake setting.

1959 8mm frame supported by metadata showing a small aircraft or seaplane traveling low over a lake near Kansas City, Missouri. — The small aircraft appears low over the water near the far shore.

Kansas City-area 1959 home-movie frame showing lake water, distant land, and a small wake or aircraft trace near the shoreline. — A faint wake or aircraft trace is visible against the distant shoreline.

1959 8mm frame showing a small aircraft or seaplane on or just above the water, leaving a bright wake across the lake. — The aircraft skims the lake surface, leaving a white wake.

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