Kansas City Missouri-1959: Young Couple Shows Off Their Christmas Tree Together

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

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Young Couple Shows Off Their Christmas Tree Together — Clip Details

A young couple in a 1959 home movie from Kansas City, Missouri, shares a quiet holiday moment. The woman, wearing a white dress with a red sash and floral skirt, stands near a doorway as the man in a blue shirt and trousers bends to adjust a chair. The scene transitions to a decorated Christmas tree with colorful lights and tinsel against a green wall, capturing the nostalgic warmth of a mid-century American holiday. Shot on 8mm film, the footage features natural film grain and authentic period details, including vintage furniture and decor.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123146130

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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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 American home-movie requests needing a quiet domestic Christmas moment with a young couple and holiday interior detail.
Period detail: The clothing, green-painted interior, patterned chair, tinsel tree, and colorful lights may show late-1950s middle-class holiday decor.
Home-movie behavior: The couple appears casually filmed in a private room as one person moves near the doorway and the other adjusts furniture before the camera settles on the tree.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a young couple, white dress with red sash, blue shirt and trousers, doorway, patterned chair, lamp, green wall, and decorated Christmas tree.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that give the clip a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a holiday insert, domestic memory beat, or transition from people in a home to a Christmas tree detail.
Historical context: The footage places a family holiday scene inside a private Kansas City interior, showing informal mid-century domestic celebration without public landmarks.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property considerations may apply separately from any copyright review.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1959 Kansas City Christmas home movie, 8mm young couple holiday interior, and vintage family Christmas tree footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1959 Kansas City home interiors, then broader 1950s Christmas family scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a 1959 Kansas City home-movie frame, a woman in a white dress with red sash stands near a man in a blue shirt inside a private room. — A young couple stands together near a doorway in a green-walled domestic interior.

The woman in a white floral dress moves toward a door as the man in a blue shirt bends beside a patterned chair in the Kansas City home interior. — The couple moves around the room, with the man adjusting or reaching near a chair.

A decorated Christmas tree with tinsel, ornaments, and colored lights stands against a green wall in the 1959 home-movie interior. — The camera frames the Christmas tree and nearby wall decor inside the room.

The final frame holds on the illuminated Christmas tree, with tinsel and ornaments visible beside patterned curtains in the Kansas City interior. — A closer view of the lit Christmas tree emphasizes tinsel, ornaments, and mid-century room decor.

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