Kansas City Missouri-1959: Christmas Tree Is All Lit Up With An Angel On The Top

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

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Christmas Tree Is All Lit Up With An Angel On The Top — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a classic Christmas tree adorned with colorful lights and tinsel, topped with a glowing angel ornament. The tree stands in a dimly lit room with green walls and a dark curtain, its lights flickering warmly. The footage shows a slow upward pan, revealing the full height of the decorated tree, evoking a nostalgic holiday atmosphere from mid-century America.

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: 123147897

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

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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: 1950s Kansas City home-movie footage for productions needing a brief domestic Christmas tree insert or holiday memory cutaway.
Period detail: The tinsel-heavy Christmas tree, colored bulbs, angel topper, green walls, and dark curtains support a mid-century domestic holiday setting.
Home-movie behavior: The slow upward framing treats the tree as the subject, preserving an unstaged family-record view of holiday decoration rather than a performed scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lit Christmas tree, silver tinsel, multicolored bulbs, an angel topper, green walls, brown curtains, and a dim interior.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure shifts, and handheld framing that give the clip a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a Christmas insert, nostalgic transition, domestic holiday cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a mid-century sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a decorated indoor Christmas tree in a private American home, reflecting visible mid-century holiday display practices.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property-release needs should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s 8mm Christmas tree, Kansas City holiday home movie, angel tree topper, and vintage tinsel lights footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Kansas City or 1959 home-movie material, then related Christmas interiors and holiday decoration clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Kansas City home-movie frame showing the upper Christmas tree with silver tinsel, colored lights, and an angel topper. — The camera begins on the upper tree, where colored bulbs and tinsel surround the angel topper.

1959 Kansas City frame of a decorated Christmas tree beside a dark curtain, with colored lights and a pale angel at the top. — A decorated tree fills more of the frame, with the angel topper visible above the tinsel.

1959 Kansas City home-movie view of the Christmas tree as the camera moves along its tinsel-covered branches and colored lights. — The frame centers on the tinsel and lights across the tree's middle and upper branches.

1959 Kansas City frame showing the lit Christmas tree in a dim room, with tinsel, colored bulbs, green wall, and curtain behind it. — The tree stands in the room with colored lights glowing through dense silver tinsel.

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