Cheyenne County Kansas-1958: A Red Fire Truck With Ladder Parked Near Gas Station and Pigs in Pen

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationCheyenne, Kansas, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Kansas

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A Red Fire Truck With Ladder Parked Near Gas Station and... — Clip Details

A red vintage 1950s fire truck with a ladder mounted on its bed is parked on a small-town street in Cheyenne County, Kansas, in 1958. The 8mm home movie footage captures the classic vehicle in front of a gas station with a Chevron sign, surrounded by period cars and storefronts. The scene transitions to a fenced livestock pen with hay bedding, where pigs are visible behind wire mesh, decorated with red, white, and blue bunting. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film evokes a nostalgic, mid-century Americana atmosphere.

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: 125880687

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: Yes
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: 1958 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: Cheyenne, Kansas, 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 small-town home-movie footage suited for documentary inserts about rural streets, civic vehicles, roadside businesses, and livestock displays.
Period detail: The red ladder truck, older cars, Chevron sign, storefronts, and patriotic bunting support a late-1950s small-town setting in Cheyenne County, Kansas.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a casual roadside viewpoint, moving from a parked fire truck to pigs in a pen as a home-movie camera records ordinary public details.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red ladder truck, period cars, a gas station sign, storefront facades, wire livestock fencing, hay bedding, pigs, and red-white-blue bunting.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, color fading, exposure variation, and slight handheld movement that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or cutaway linking civic street life with agricultural fairground or livestock imagery.
Historical context: The footage places mid-century transportation and livestock display material in the same small-town visual sequence without documenting a specific public event.
Research note: Human review should note visible brand signage and possible faces or bystanders; copyright, trademark, likeness, and property questions remain separate clearance issues.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1958 Kansas 8mm fire truck, Cheyenne County gas station home movie, vintage livestock pen pigs, and small-town Americana footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Cheyenne County 1958 clips, then related 1950s rural street, gas station, fire truck, or livestock footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A red 1950s ladder truck is parked near a gas station and storefronts in Cheyenne County, Kansas, with period cars nearby. — Red ladder truck parked near a gas station and storefronts.

A wire-fenced livestock pen in the 1958 Kansas clip shows pigs on hay bedding beside red, white, and blue bunting. — Pigs stand behind wire fencing with patriotic bunting at the pen edge.

Close view of pigs inside a wire livestock pen with hay bedding and red, white, and blue bunting in the foreground. — Close roadside view of pigs inside the decorated livestock pen.

A decorated wire livestock pen in Cheyenne County, Kansas, shows pigs behind mesh with patriotic bunting bordering the curb. — Wire livestock pen with pigs and bunting along the curb.

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