Cheyenne County Kansas-1958: This Sleepy Suburb Thought The Home Family And

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

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This Sleepy Suburb Thought The Home Family And — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban neighborhood in Cheyenne County, Kansas. Bare trees frame the view of modest homes and a distant hill under a clear blue sky. The film's distinct purple and blue color cast and soft focus evoke a nostalgic, mid-century Americana feel. A swing set and a parked car suggest family life in a peaceful, small-town setting. This archival footage offers authentic, unscripted glimpses of 1950s community life, ideal for documentaries, historical projects, and nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125881147

Rights & Clearance

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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Cheyenne, Kansas, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1958 8mm clip helps document mid-century small-town residential life for documentary inserts, classroom history pieces, and memory-based edits.
Period detail: The modest detached houses, bare trees, utility pole, parked car, and yard swing may show a quiet Kansas residential area in the late 1950s.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the neighborhood from a distance, giving an unstaged home-movie view of ordinary streets and family yards without visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include small houses, leafless trees, a utility pole, a swing set, a parked car, distant low hills, fences, and a clear blue sky.
Film character: The scan carries soft 8mm focus, visible grain, slight blur, and a purple-blue color shift that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a residential cutaway, quiet transition, or memory beat establishing small-town domestic surroundings.
Historical context: The scene places family housing and open landscape in the same frame, suggesting the residential edge of a small community without making specific civic claims.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or music are evident, but visible homes and yards should still be reviewed for copyright, property, and contextual use concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Kansas 8mm neighborhood, 1950s small-town suburb home movie, bare trees houses swing set, and Cheyenne County residential footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Cheyenne County or 1958 Kansas scenes, then broader 1950s suburban family-life exteriors.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm view of a quiet Cheyenne County, Kansas residential area with modest houses, leafless trees, and distant hills. — Bare trees frame modest houses at the edge of a small Kansas neighborhood.

A quiet 1958 Kansas neighborhood scene shows houses, winter-bare trees, utility lines, and a low hill beyond town. — Houses and leafless trees sit beneath a clear sky with low hills beyond.

1958 home-movie frame of a Cheyenne County residential yard with modest houses, bare trees, a swing set, and a parked car partly visible. — A yard swing and parked car appear among small homes and bare trees.

A soft 8mm frame shows a quiet 1958 Kansas residential street or yard with homes, swing set, parked car, bare trees, and distant hills. — A parked car and swing set mark a family yard in a quiet residential scene.

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