Kansas City Missouri-1959: 2 Dogs Playing On Grass

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

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2 Dogs Playing On Grass — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures two dogs playing energetically on a grassy lawn in Kansas City, Missouri. A white dog with brown patches and a brown dog wrestle and tumble across the green yard, their movements lively and joyful. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and warm color tones typical of mid-century home movies. The scene is framed by dark borders, suggesting a projected film reel, and conveys a nostalgic, candid moment of pet play.

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: 123145398

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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Kansas City home-movie footage suited for editorial requests needing domestic pet play, backyard leisure, or mid-century everyday animal cutaways.
Period detail: The visible clues are limited to 8mm color home-movie texture, lawn setting, and the metadata-supported 1959 Kansas City context rather than identifiable landmarks or dated objects.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged family-film moment as two dogs wrestle, chase, and pause on grass without people directing the action in frame.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white dog with dark patches, a brown long-haired dog, green lawn, collars, dark film borders, soft focus, and rapid play movement.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight blur from motion, uneven exposure, and dark projected-frame borders that signal original home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, memory beat, domestic-life cutaway, or transition illustrating pets and informal leisure in a late-1950s home-movie context.
Historical context: The scene reflects ordinary pet keeping and yard play in a private domestic setting, with historical specificity coming from the supplied 1959 Kansas City metadata.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, brands, or audible music are visible or flagged, but copyright status and any property-related permissions should still be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1959 8mm dogs playing, Kansas City home movie pets, vintage backyard dog footage, and mid-century family film animals.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1959 Kansas City home movies, then broader 1950s pet, lawn, and family-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In metadata-supported 1959 Kansas City 8mm footage, a white dog with brown patches tugs or wrestles with a brown dog on a lawn. — Two dogs engage in rough play on a grassy lawn.

A white dog with brown ears and dark patches stands alert on a grassy lawn, with the brown dog partly visible at the edge of the frame. — The white dog pauses upright during the play sequence.

The brown dog and the white patched dog face each other low to the ground during active play on the lawn. — Both dogs crouch close together in the grass.

The brown dog moves across the foreground while the white patched dog bends toward the grass during the backyard play scene. — The dogs continue moving across the lawn in a playful exchange.

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