Cheyenne County Kansas-1958: Festivities In The Town

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

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Festivities In The Town — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures festive decorations strung across a town street in Cheyenne County, Kansas. Red bells and white star-shaped ornaments hang against a deep blue sky, with a partially visible 'FURNITURE' sign below. The scene shifts to a white house nestled among bare trees on a hillside, framed by dark branches against the same vivid sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic, candid quality typical of mid-century family recordings.

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: 125881132

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: Yes
Audible music: No

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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: Useful for 1950s small-town Kansas establishing footage, holiday or civic decoration inserts, and documentary sequences needing brief home-movie street atmosphere.
Period detail: The visible red bell and star garlands, storefront sign, bare trees, and modest hillside house may show mid-century town festivity details in Cheyenne County, Kansas.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, glancing from overhead street decorations to a nearby house rather than presenting a formal civic record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include overhead garlands, red bell ornaments, white star decorations, a partial furniture sign, blue sky, bare tree branches, a white house, and a hillside setting.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows saturated blue color, soft focus, light gate marks, grain, and handheld framing that give the brief scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, seasonal transition, town cutaway, or memory beat between broader Kansas community or family-history scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually suggests public-facing town festivity and residential surroundings, but the exact occasion is not identified in the frames or supplied metadata.
Research note: No people are visible, but the partial storefront sign and residential exterior should be reviewed separately from copyright for trademark, location, and property-context concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 8mm Kansas town decorations, Cheyenne County home movie, small-town holiday street footage, and mid-century residential cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Cheyenne County or 1958 Kansas footage, then broader small-town festivities, houses, trees, and street-decoration scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Cheyenne County, Kansas 8mm frame showing festive garlands, red bell ornaments, white stars, and a partial furniture sign below. — Festive street decorations hang above a town street with a partial furniture sign below.

1958 Cheyenne County, Kansas frame with red bell and white star street decorations suspended above storefronts and a partial furniture sign. — Red bell and white star ornaments span the street above low storefronts.

1958 Cheyenne County, Kansas 8mm frame showing a white house among bare trees on a hillside beneath a saturated blue sky. — A white hillside house appears through dark winter branches.

1958 Cheyenne County, Kansas frame of a white house partly obscured by bare branches, with another structure at the right edge. — Bare branches frame a white house set above the camera viewpoint.

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