Kansas City Missouri-1959: Empty Industrial Yard With Palm Trees And Electrical Poles

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

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Empty Industrial Yard With Palm Trees And Electrical Poles — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this clip captures a desolate industrial yard in Kansas City, Missouri. The view, framed by a dark border, shows a wide, empty concrete lot with scattered palm trees, tall electrical poles, and a chain-link fence. In the distance, low hills rise under a dramatic cloudy sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera movement, evoking a sense of quiet isolation and mid-century Americana. This archival home movie offers authentic vintage texture and mood for historical or nostalgic projects.

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: 123144769

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 requests needing late-1950s 8mm exterior atmosphere, especially industrial-edge cutaways, empty yard inserts, or transitional views of mid-century built space.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century roadside or industrial infrastructure, with simple fencing, utility poles, small palms, open paved ground, and distant low hills under heavy clouds.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged home-movie glance, observing an ordinary empty yard from a fixed or lightly handheld position rather than presenting a planned scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wide paved lot, small palm trees, chain-link fencing, tall utility or light poles, distant low hills, cloudy sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, gate edges, dust specks, and mild handheld instability that support its physical-film character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, establishing insert, memory beat, or quiet transition between scenes about infrastructure, travel, emptiness, or industrial outskirts.
Historical context: The view suggests an ordinary developed edge landscape in the late 1950s, showing open paved space and utility infrastructure without identifiable people, signage, or active work.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status, location identity, and any property-related concerns should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Searches such as 1959 8mm industrial yard, Kansas City empty lot home movie, vintage utility poles, palm trees by paved yard, and mid-century exterior cutaway may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1959 Kansas City material, then with empty yards, utility infrastructure, roadside spaces, or cloudy exterior cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 8mm view in Kansas City metadata showing an empty paved yard with a palm tree, utility poles, fencing, distant hills, and heavy clouds. — A small palm tree stands in an empty paved yard with poles, fencing, low hills, and cloudy sky beyond.

Kansas City 1959 8mm frame of an empty industrial-edge yard, centered on a palm tree with fencing, poles, hills, and clouds in the background. — The yard remains empty as a palm tree and rows of poles stand against distant hills and a cloudy sky.

1959 Kansas City 8mm frame showing a palm tree at the edge of a broad paved lot with utility poles, fencing, low hills, and dramatic clouds. — A palm tree sits near the right edge of the frame beside an open paved lot and distant utility poles.

Kansas City 1959 8mm view of a broad empty lot with utility poles, fence posts, low hills, heavy clouds, and a partial palm frond in the foreground. — The final frame widens across the empty lot, poles, fence posts, hills, and clouds, with a palm frond entering at the bottom.

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