Kansas City Missouri-1959: Fully Decorated Natural Green Christmas Tree With

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

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Fully Decorated Natural Green Christmas Tree With — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from 1959 captures a fully decorated natural green Christmas tree, adorned with colorful ornaments, blinking lights, and icicle decorations. The footage, shot in Kansas City, Missouri, features the classic grain and color saturation of mid-century film, with a nostalgic, warm holiday atmosphere. The camera pans slowly across the tree, highlighting the festive details and the gentle glow of the lights, evoking a sense of family tradition and holiday cheer from the late 1950s.

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: 123145124

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s color 8mm holiday home-movie footage for editors needing a Christmas tree insert, seasonal cutaway, or mid-century domestic memory beat.
Period detail: The decorated natural tree, shiny round ornaments, tinsel icicles, and soft color 8mm texture support a late-1950s holiday setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera studies the tree at close range with an informal home-movie gaze, emphasizing decoration details rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include evergreen branches, silver tinsel, round glass ornaments, small colored lights, hanging icicles, and pale interior walls.
Film character: The clip has soft focus, visible grain, saturated color, slight exposure variation, and the gentle instability typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: Editors can use this as a Christmas insert, holiday transition, domestic cutaway, or quiet visual bridge in a family-memory sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a mid-century American household Christmas display through decor and filming style without showing people or a wider room.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location metadata, and any property context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1950s Christmas tree home movie, Kansas City holiday decor 8mm, vintage tinsel ornaments, and mid-century family Christmas footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1959 Kansas City home-movie clips, then broader 1950s Christmas, holiday decor, and family interior material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Kansas City 8mm frame showing the upper section of a decorated green Christmas tree with tinsel, ornaments, and soft indoor light. — Upper branches of a Christmas tree with tinsel, ornaments, and pale wall behind.

1959 Kansas City home-movie frame of a Christmas tree section dense with tinsel, colored ornaments, and small lights. — A close section of the tree shows layered tinsel, ornaments, and holiday lights.

1959 Kansas City 8mm frame showing lower branches of a decorated Christmas tree with tinsel, round ornaments, and hanging trim. — Lower tree branches carry tinsel, round ornaments, and dangling holiday decorations.

1959 Kansas City home-movie frame with a decorated green Christmas tree, silver tinsel, colorful ornaments, and soft 8mm texture. — The final frame holds on a dense area of decorated branches, tinsel, and ornaments.

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