Kansas City Missouri-1959: Ironing Board and Tricycle in Front of Christmas Tree and Presents

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

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Ironing Board and Tricycle in Front of Christmas Tree... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a cozy holiday scene in Kansas City, Missouri. A red tricycle stands beside an ironing board with a blue garment draped over it, set against a backdrop of a decorated Christmas tree with tinsel and glowing bulbs. The room is filled with wrapped presents, toys, and a blue wagon, evoking classic mid-century American family life. The footage shows slight camera movement and the warm, grainy texture of Super 8 film, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, nostalgic content, or holiday-themed projects.

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: 123146638

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: 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.
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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Kansas City home-movie material for productions needing a brief holiday interior cutaway with toys, presents, and domestic Christmas decor.
Period detail: Visible details include a metal tricycle, folding ironing board, tinsel-covered Christmas tree, wrapped gifts, and mid-century home furnishings that support a late-1950s domestic setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged value of a family camera lingering over a Christmas room before or after gift opening, with no people visible in the sampled frames.
What appears in frame: The frames show a red tricycle, ironing board with a blue garment, wrapped presents, blue wagon, plaid chair, Christmas tree, tinsel, and colored bulbs.
Film character: The 8mm scan has warm color, visible grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet gate edges that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a short holiday memory beat, domestic-life insert, Christmas transition, or cutaway establishing presents and toys in a private home.
Historical context: The scene reflects mid-century American household Christmas display and gift arrangement, shown through toys and domestic objects rather than public ceremony.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the private home interior and personal property should be reviewed for context-sensitive use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1959 8mm Christmas home movie, Kansas City holiday interior, vintage tricycle presents tree, and 1950s family Christmas room.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Kansas City 1959 family interiors, then broader 1950s Christmas home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Kansas City home interior with a red tricycle, ironing board, blue garment, and holiday decorations partly visible. — A red tricycle and ironing board sit near Christmas decorations in a private home interior.

1959 Kansas City Christmas room with wrapped gifts, toys, a red tricycle, plaid chair, and household furniture. — Wrapped presents and toys cluster beside a tricycle and chair in the holiday room.

1959 Kansas City holiday interior showing wrapped gifts, toys, a blue wagon, a red tricycle, and shiny tinsel overhead. — Presents and toys fill the floor beneath tinsel in a Christmas home-movie frame.

1959 Kansas City Christmas interior with a tinsel-covered tree, colored bulbs, presents, toys, and part of a tricycle. — A tinsel-heavy Christmas tree stands over presents and toys in a private home.

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