Saint Francis Kansas-1958: Shirtless Man Tilling Garden at Night

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

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Shirtless Man Tilling Garden at Night — Clip Details

A shirtless man operates a red hand tiller in a dark backyard at night, likely in Saint Francis, Kansas, in 1958. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the man working the soil with a vintage garden tool under dim artificial light, with trees and hedges in the background. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 home movie evokes a nostalgic, mid-century Americana feel. This authentic archival clip shows a moment of rural domestic labor, with the man focused on preparing the ground, possibly for planting. The scene reflects everyday life in the late 1950s, with the man wearing jeans and no shirt, suggesting warm weather. The footage is ideal for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-accurate storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
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: 125881183

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: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
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: Saint Francis, 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 Kansas home-movie footage for productions needing rural domestic labor, backyard gardening, or mid-century Americana cutaways.
Period detail: The jeans, shirtless warm-weather work, red walk-behind garden tiller, and 8mm color stock support a late-1950s rural home setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged moment of a man concentrating on backyard soil work while the camera watches from a family-film distance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a shirtless man, blue jeans, a red hand tiller, yellow wheels, dark hedges, trees, grass, and a nearby house edge.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, soft focus, dim night exposure, saturated reds and yellows, and a handheld home-movie cadence.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, rural labor cutaway, night gardening detail, or memory beat within a family or agricultural sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects ordinary domestic outdoor work in a small-town or rural yard without making broader claims beyond the visible backyard activity.
Research note: A person is visible and may be identifiable only in profile or from behind, so likeness review should be separate from copyright and property checks.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Kansas 8mm home movie, shirtless man using hand tiller, backyard gardening at night, and rural domestic labor footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel family yard scenes, then Saint Francis Kansas 1958 material, then broader 1950s gardening, small-town, or farm-adjacent labor clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

In likely Saint Francis, Kansas, 1958 footage, a shirtless man guides a red hand tiller through a dim backyard. — A man works a red hand tiller through the yard at night.

A shirtless man in jeans walks behind a red garden tiller in dim 1958 Kansas home-movie footage. — The man continues guiding the tiller along the dark backyard edge.

The home-movie frame shows the man leaning into the red tiller, with trees and hedges behind him. — The operator bends slightly as he works the tiller through the yard.

A shirtless man guides the red tiller near dark hedges, with part of a house visible at the right edge. — The tiller moves along the yard near hedges and a house wall.

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