Kansas City Missouri-1959: Merry Christmas From Santa

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

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Merry Christmas From Santa — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from 1959, featuring a cheerful Santa Claus illustration on a holiday card. Santa wears a classic red suit with white fur trim and a matching hat, holding a green gift bag. The image has a soft, nostalgic quality with slight color fading and film grain, typical of mid-century home footage. The card includes handwritten 'Merry Christmas' and the year '1959' at the bottom. This archival footage captures the warm, festive spirit of a 1950s American holiday season.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-up
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: 123146972

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

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s holiday inserts, Christmas card cutaways, and documentary sequences needing a brief mid-century American seasonal visual.
Period detail: The handwritten 1959 date and illustrated Santa card support a late-1950s holiday setting, with the Kansas City location supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the quiet home-movie value of someone filming a Christmas greeting card as a family keepsake rather than staging a public scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a Santa illustration, red suit, white beard, green gift bag, pale card background, handwritten Merry Christmas, 1959 date, and film frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, and contact-sheet framing give the short 8mm scan a tactile mid-century home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a holiday insert, chapter transition, memory beat, or establishing cutaway for a 1959 Christmas sequence.
Historical context: The card reflects a common domestic holiday greeting style, centered on a cheerful Santa illustration rather than a photographed family scene.
Research note: No real people, logos, or private property are visible, but the Santa artwork and card design may still require copyright or source-rights review.
Research search match: 1959 8mm Christmas card footage, vintage Santa illustration, Kansas City holiday home movie, mid-century Merry Christmas insert.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Kansas City or 1959 family footage, then broader Christmas and holiday-card imagery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Kansas City home-movie frame showing a cropped Santa illustration on a holiday card with red suit, white beard, and green gift bag. — Cropped Santa illustration fills the card frame at the start of the clip.

Close 8mm frame of the Kansas City Christmas card, centered on Santa's face, beard, red clothing, and green gift bag. — Santa's face and beard remain centered in a soft, grainy card close-up.

Home-movie frame of the Santa holiday card, tightly cropped with the illustrated beard, red suit, and green bag visible. — A tighter Santa card view shows the illustration shifting within the film frame.

1959 Kansas City frame showing more of the Christmas card, including Santa and the handwritten Merry Christmas greeting with the year below. — The final frame reveals the handwritten Merry Christmas greeting and 1959 date.

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