Cheyenne County Kansas-1958: A Duck Swims In A Concrete Pond Behind A Chain Link Fence

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

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A Duck Swims In A Concrete Pond Behind A Chain Link Fence — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a duck swimming in a concrete pond behind a chain-link fence in Cheyenne County, Kansas. The footage shows the duck moving through the water, its white head and dark body visible through the diamond-patterned fence. The scene is dimly lit, with a grainy, nostalgic quality typical of Super 8 film. The duck’s movements are slow and deliberate, creating ripples in the murky water. The overall mood is quiet and observational, offering a glimpse of rural life and animal behavior from the late 1950s.

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: 125880887

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

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful 1950s rural Kansas animal cutaway for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing brief observational home-movie footage of a duck in a fenced pond.
Period detail: The 8mm look, chain-link fence, concrete pond edge, and simple animal enclosure may show mid-century small-town or rural recreational surroundings.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the duck without staging, giving the clip the quiet visitor or family-filmmaker perspective typical of home movies.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a duck with a pale head and dark body, murky pond water, concrete edging, chain-link fencing, shadows, debris, and heavy film grain.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, dim exposure, soft focus, uneven color, and contact-sheet frame variation that read as physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, rural-life insert, animal-behavior beat, or quiet transition within a 1950s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a modest fenced water feature and a duck filmed close up, offering visual context for everyday animal observation in archival home movies.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright, location context, and any property or collection restrictions separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1958 8mm duck pond footage, Cheyenne County Kansas home movie animal scene, chain-link fence duck, and rural 1950s wildlife cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1958 Cheyenne County Kansas scenes, then broader mid-century home-movie animal or pond material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm frame from Cheyenne County, Kansas, showing a pale-headed duck near a concrete pond edge in dim light. — Duck near the edge of a shadowed concrete pond.

A duck appears near the concrete side of a pond, its pale head and dark body softened by grainy 8mm exposure. — Duck seen close to the concrete pond wall.

The duck is partly framed at the bottom of the shot, with concrete edges and heavy shadow dominating the 8mm frame. — Partially framed duck at the edge of the pond.

A pale-headed duck with a dark body swims behind a chain-link fence in a concrete pond, filmed on 8mm in Kansas in 1958. — Duck swimming behind a chain-link fence.

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