Cheyenne County Kansas-1959: Car Driving on Rural Road at Twilight

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationCheyenne, Kansas, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Car Driving on Rural Road at Twilight — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a first-person view from a car driving down a rural road in Cheyenne County, Kansas. The footage shows a two-lane road stretching into the distance under a deep purple twilight sky, with a small white house visible on a hillside and utility poles lining the route. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight motion blur, and a nostalgic color palette, conveying a quiet, isolated journey through the American Midwest. The final frame reveals a speed limit sign reading 'JCT 40', confirming the location and era. This authentic archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content about mid-century American life.

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: 125882039

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: 1959 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: Useful for requests needing 1950s rural Kansas road travel, first-person driving views, or quiet Midwestern transition material for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The two-lane roadway, sparse utility poles, roadside signs, and open countryside may show mid-century rural highway conditions in Cheyenne County, Kansas.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged value of a traveler filming through a car windshield during an ordinary rural drive.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a two-lane road, dark dashboard edge, utility poles, open fields, a small white building, twilight sky, roadside shoulder, and highway signage.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows visible grain, soft focus, motion blur, dust marks, and uneven exposure that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief road-travel insert, rural transition, memory beat, or establishing cutaway for a mid-century journey.
Historical context: The footage places the viewer on a sparsely traveled rural road, suggesting everyday automobile movement through open High Plains scenery without showing people.
Research note: No people are visible, but roadway signs and visible structures should be reviewed separately from copyright for trademark, location, and property concerns.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1959 8mm Kansas road footage, rural Midwest driving home movie, twilight highway view, and Cheyenne County travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Cheyenne County or 1959 Kansas material, then with broader rural road and car-travel themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Cheyenne County, Kansas home-movie frame showing a road from inside a moving car, with open fields and a small white building ahead. — Rural road view from a moving car with a small white building on the horizon.

Cheyenne County, Kansas road view from a moving car, with a small white building, utility poles, and open roadside terrain. — The road continues past utility poles and a small white building in open countryside.

1959 home-movie road footage in rural Cheyenne County, Kansas, looking ahead from a car along an empty two-lane route. — A moving car approaches a low rise on an empty rural road.

Roadside signs appear beside a rural Cheyenne County, Kansas highway in a 1959 home-movie driving view. — Roadside signage comes into view along the rural highway.

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