Kansas City Missouri-1959: A Brown And A White Dog Playing On A Lush Green Lawn

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

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A Brown And A White Dog Playing On A Lush Green Lawn — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures two dogs—a brown and a white one—playfully wrestling on a lush green lawn in Kansas City, Missouri. The dogs roll and tumble across the grass, their energetic interaction conveying pure joy and companionship. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, warm color tones, and a slightly soft focus, characteristic of mid-century home recordings. A white house siding and dark shrubbery form the backdrop, grounding the scene in a suburban backyard setting. This authentic slice of Americana offers nostalgic, archival footage ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or retro-themed 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: 123145379

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 1950s home-movie footage of family pets or suburban backyard life in Kansas City, Missouri.
Period detail: The frames show a mowed green lawn and house siding that may reflect a mid-century residential backyard setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged home-movie moment of two dogs wrestling and rolling together on grass.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a brown dog, a white dog with dark patches, green lawn, house siding, shrubbery, soft focus, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, and slight exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, memory beat, pet-life cutaway, or transition within domestic Americana sequences.
Historical context: The scene offers modest visual context for everyday pet companionship in a residential American backyard without showing identifiable people.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property-release needs should be checked separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1959 8mm dogs playing on lawn, Kansas City home movie pets, vintage backyard dog footage, and 1950s suburban animals.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby same-reel family or yard footage, then Kansas City 1959 material, then broader 1950s pets and backyard themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In this 1959 Kansas City home-movie frame, a brown dog and a white dog play low to the grass in a backyard. — Two dogs begin wrestling on the lawn beside a house exterior.

The white dog rolls onto its side while the brown dog stays close on the Kansas City lawn. — The white dog rolls as the brown dog continues the play.

A white dog with dark patches sits upright as the brown dog turns nearby in the backyard grass. — The dogs pause briefly, one upright and one turning away.

The two dogs come together again on the green lawn, partly blurred by motion and soft 8mm focus. — The dogs meet again in a close, playful tangle on the grass.

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