Cheyenne County Kansas-1958: Two Emus Walking in Fenced Enclosure

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

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Two Emus Walking in Fenced Enclosure — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures two emus walking side by side within a wire-fenced enclosure in Cheyenne County, Kansas. The grainy, slightly green-tinted footage shows the birds moving across a dirt path, with a small stone building and dense trees in the background. The natural daylight and subtle camera movement give the clip a nostalgic, archival quality, offering a rare glimpse of wildlife in a rural American setting during the late 1950s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125880983

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s 8mm animal footage for productions needing a rural Kansas wildlife-park or fenced-enclosure cutaway without people visible.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1950s visitor footage, with wire fencing, a dirt path, simple stone structures, and muted daylight supporting the 1958 home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the emus from outside or near a fenced enclosure, giving the footage an unstaged visitor-shot quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two emus, wire fence posts, dirt paths, grass patches, small stone buildings, dense trees, and film wear marks.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, greenish color cast, mild exposure variation, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an animal cutaway, rural travel insert, transition beat, or brief archival detail within a 1950s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers a visual record of captive large birds in an outdoor fenced setting in Kansas, without visible visitors or signage to identify the site.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any property or location permissions separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1958 Kansas 8mm emus, vintage home movie fenced animal enclosure, and 1950s rural wildlife footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Cheyenne County Kansas footage, then broader vintage animal-enclosure or rural nature material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm frame from Kansas showing two emus walking inside a wire-fenced outdoor enclosure with stone buildings and trees in the background. — Two emus move through a fenced outdoor enclosure near stone structures.

1958 Kansas home-movie frame showing two emus in a fenced dirt enclosure, with a low stone building and trees beyond the fence. — The emus walk apart across the dirt enclosure as the fence lines the foreground.

Soft 1958 8mm Kansas frame showing two emus near a wire fence, a dirt path, grass, stone structure, and visible vertical film wear. — Film wear streaks cross the view as the emus remain near the fenced path.

1958 Kansas 8mm frame showing two emus in an outdoor wire-fenced enclosure, with dirt ground, grass, fence posts, and trees in the background. — The pair of emus continues across the enclosure in soft, green-tinted 8mm footage.

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