Kansas City Missouri-1959: An Old Church With Rose Window And Surrounding Land

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

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An Old Church With Rose Window And Surrounding Land — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a white church with a prominent rose window and cross against a bright blue sky. The footage, framed by a dark border, shows slight jitters and film grain typical of Super 8 home recordings. Lush green trees and flowering bushes surround the building, with a utility pole and old car visible in the foreground. The scene evokes a quiet, nostalgic moment from mid-century America, likely filmed from a car window.

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: 123144797

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 Kansas City or mid-century American church exterior requests needing a short archival cutaway or establishing insert.
Period detail: The white stucco-like church facade, rose window, cross, utility pole, older roadside setting, and 8mm color stock support a late-1950s home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot roadside viewpoint, likely filmed quickly from a car or sidewalk rather than as a formal architectural record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white church, rose window, roof cross, arched entrance, shrubs, trees, utility poles, blue sky, and a paved roadside area.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, gate borders, slight jitter, soft focus, uneven exposure, and contact-print-like frame edges as part of its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, religious-site cutaway, memory beat, or transition within a mid-century American city sequence.
Historical context: The exterior view reflects everyday home-movie documentation of a neighborhood church and surrounding land without showing worshippers or an event.
Research note: No people or brands are visible, but the identifiable religious building may still require context review for property, trademark, or location-use concerns.
Research search match: Searches such as 1959 Kansas City church exterior, 8mm home movie rose window, white church cross, and mid-century Missouri roadside footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then Kansas City 1959 material, then other mid-century church exteriors or roadside landmark cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Kansas City home-movie frame showing a white church with rose window, arched doorway, landscaping, and dark film borders. — White church facade with rose window and arched entrance, framed by shrubs and film edge borders.

1959 Kansas City frame of a white church exterior with cross, circular rose window, utility pole, trees, and soft 8mm focus. — Church exterior with cross above the roofline and a utility pole at the left edge.

1959 Kansas City 8mm frame centered on a white church with rose window, cross, arched entry, roadside foreground, and shrubs. — Centered view of the church facade with rose window, cross, landscaping, and roadside foreground.

1959 Kansas City home-movie frame showing surrounding land near the church, with a pole, sparse trees, low structures, and film border. — Surrounding church land and roadside area with poles, sparse trees, and low background structures.

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