Kansas City Missouri-1959: A Large House With A Huge Lawn And A Very Rich Owner

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

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A Large House With A Huge Lawn And A Very Rich Owner — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a large, two-story house with a prominent exterior staircase and expansive lawn, viewed from a moving vehicle. The footage, framed by dark borders, shows a tropical or subtropical setting with palm trees and lush greenery surrounding the structure. The house features a mix of stucco and possibly concrete construction with large windows and a covered porch. The scene is bathed in bright daylight under a partly cloudy sky, with a winding driveway visible in the foreground. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and subtle motion blur, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the late 1950s.

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: 123144738

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 home-movie requests needing an exterior residential cutaway or wealth-coded suburban establishing detail.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1950s residential architecture, with stucco walls, exterior stairs, broad lawn, and palm-like landscaping visible from the road.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot or passenger-seat perspective, observing the house casually from a moving vehicle rather than through a staged property view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a two-story house, exterior staircase, broad lawn, driveway or road edge, palm-like trees, shrubs, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft grain, mild color fading, gate borders, slight blur, and uneven exposure that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for mid-century domestic affluence or residential travel observation.
Historical context: The scene offers a period view of a large landscaped residence, but the frames do not identify the owner, exact address, or social history.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but property identification and copyright status should still be reviewed before public or commercial use.
Research search match: Search matches include 1959 8mm large house exterior, mid-century lawn residence, vintage home movie estate, and Kansas City residential cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Kansas City or 1959 residential footage, then with large-house and lawn exteriors.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 8mm frame showing a large house with exterior stairs, a broad lawn, shrubs, and a road edge in the foreground. — A large residence with exterior stairs is seen beyond a lawn from a moving roadside view.

1959 8mm view of a large residential facade with stairs, lawn, palm-like landscaping, shrubs, and visible film borders. — The moving camera passes a landscaped house with a prominent exterior stairway and lawn.

1959 8mm frame with the house closer in view, showing lawn, palm trunk, upper windows, shaded porch area, and soft film grain. — The house fills more of the frame as the vehicle passes the lawn and porch area.

1959 8mm frame showing a large house beyond a lawn, with a palm-like tree, shrubs, porch openings, and roadside foreground. — A final passing view shows the broad lawn and house frontage framed by palm-like landscaping.

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