Kansas City Missouri-1959: Two Dogs Playing In The Grass

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

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Two Dogs Playing In The Grass — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures two dogs playing energetically on a grassy lawn. A brown dog and a white dog with black spots wrestle and tumble together, their playful movements creating a lively, nostalgic scene. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, film grain, and a distinct blue color cast typical of 1950s home movies. The setting appears to be a suburban backyard, with a red wagon visible in the background. This authentic slice of mid-century Americana offers a charming glimpse into everyday life and pet companionship from the era.

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: 123145355

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 U.S. home-movie requests needing a brief everyday pet-life insert or nostalgic suburban lawn cutaway.
Period detail: The 1959 8mm source and soft color home-movie look support a late-1950s domestic setting, while the lawn and small wagon may show a backyard or yard area.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves unstaged pet behavior as two dogs wrestle, tumble, and chase each other across grass from a casual family-film perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a brown dog, a white dog with dark patches, green grass, soft film edges, a red wagon, and part of a light-colored structure or object in the background.
Film character: The footage has 8mm grain, soft focus, blue color cast, gate edges, and slight exposure variation that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short memory beat, family-life cutaway, animal insert, or transition into domestic mid-century material.
Historical context: The scene reflects ordinary home-movie attention to pets and yard activity, with no visible people or identifiable public event in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible in these frames, but copyright status and any property context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Searchers looking for 1959 8mm dogs playing on grass, vintage home movie pets, Kansas City Missouri family footage, or mid-century backyard animals may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Kansas City 1959 home movies, then broader 1950s pet, lawn, and family-life scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two dogs wrestle on a grassy lawn in 1959 Kansas City home-movie footage. — A brown dog and a white dog with dark patches play-wrestle on the lawn.

The brown dog stands over the white-and-dark-patched dog as they tumble on grass in the home-movie frame. — The dogs continue tumbling together in the grass.

A brown dog moves beside the white-and-dark-patched dog lying on a grassy lawn in the 8mm footage. — One dog lies low while the brown dog stays close during play.

Two dogs play on the lawn near a small red wagon and a light-colored background object in 1959 Kansas City home-movie footage. — The dogs move across the lawn with a small wagon visible behind them.

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