Cheyenne County Kansas-1958: House and Town Below Rolling Hills

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

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House and Town Below Rolling Hills — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a quiet residential neighborhood in Cheyenne County, Kansas. The footage shows a two-story house with a white balcony and red siding, framed by bare tree branches against a deep blue sky. The scene transitions to a wider view of the town, revealing modest homes, a swing set, and rolling hills in the distance. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera movement, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American small-town atmosphere.

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: 125881144

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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s 8mm small-town Kansas exterior footage suited for documentary inserts about residential life, rural towns, or mid-century home-movie geography.
Period detail: The frame may show mid-century residential exteriors, bare trees, simple utility poles, modest houses, and open hills around Cheyenne County, Kansas.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, panning or reframing from a nearby house toward the surrounding neighborhood and hills.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a two-story house, balcony railing, bare tree branches, utility poles, modest homes, a swing set, distant hills, and blue sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries dense grain, soft focus, blue-magenta color shift, uneven exposure, and slight handheld movement typical of amateur film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing cutaway, transition, or memory beat for a small Kansas town or rural residential setting.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for modest residential streets and open terrain in a 1950s Kansas home-movie record without showing identifiable people.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are evident, but visible residential exteriors and copyright status should still be reviewed separately from property concerns.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1958 Kansas 8mm home movie, Cheyenne County neighborhood hills, small-town residential exterior, and vintage rural view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Cheyenne County Kansas exteriors, then broader small-town hill or neighborhood views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Cheyenne County, Kansas home-movie frame showing a two-story house, white balcony railing, bare trees, and deep blue sky. — A two-story house with a white balcony is seen through bare tree branches.

1958 Cheyenne County, Kansas view across modest homes and leafless trees toward rolling hills in the distance. — The view shifts from nearby houses to a wider neighborhood and low hills beyond.

A 1958 Kansas home-movie view shows small residential buildings, winter-bare trees, distant hills, and a pale blue sky. — Small houses sit below bare trees with a broad hillside behind them.

1958 Cheyenne County, Kansas frame showing residential homes, a swing set, leafless trees, and low hills beyond town. — A swing set and modest homes appear in front of the surrounding hills.

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