Cheyenne County Kansas-1959: Blue Truck Transporting Goods On Highway

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

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Blue Truck Transporting Goods On Highway — Clip Details

CHEYENNE COUNTY KANSAS-1959: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a classic dark blue truck transporting goods along a rural highway. The footage, shot from a moving vehicle, shows the truck passing a prominent highway sign for routes 40 and 13. The landscape is flat and open with dry grass, and the film exhibits characteristic grain, scratches, and color fading from the 1950s. The scene evokes a sense of mid-century Americana and everyday transportation in the American heartland.

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: 125882055

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

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: 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: This clip supports requests for late-1950s rural highway transportation, road travel inserts, and American heartland establishing material from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The dark truck, open two-lane road, route signs, and faded 8mm color may show mid-century highway travel in Cheyenne County, Kansas, as described in the source metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the observational feel of a traveler filming from a moving vehicle rather than a staged commercial setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark blue cargo truck, highway route signs for 40 and 13, a paved rural road, roadside posts, dry open fields, trees, and yellow roadside equipment.
Film character: The scan shows soft focus, handheld framing, visible grain, vertical scratches, gate marks, and faded color characteristic of aged 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, road-travel insert, regional transition, or memory beat for mid-century transportation.
Historical context: The scene documents everyday rural road movement and roadside infrastructure without showing identifiable people or private interiors.
Research note: Human review should consider the visible route signage and any vehicle markings, while noting that no likeness or private-property issue is apparent from the frames.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1950s Kansas highway truck footage, rural road home movie, 8mm American transportation, and vintage cargo truck on open road.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1959 Cheyenne County road scenes, then broader rural highway and mid-century trucking footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A dark blue cargo truck travels along a rural highway in Cheyenne County, Kansas, with route signs for 40 and 13 visible near the roadside. — Truck approaching route signs on a rural highway.

A dark blue truck with a tall cargo body moves along a paved rural highway through flat open Kansas landscape. — Cargo truck on open road.

The moving-camera view looks past a rural road shoulder toward open fields, trees, and yellow roadside equipment in Cheyenne County, Kansas. — Roadside equipment beside open fields.

A rural roadside landscape shows a paved road curving along open fields with trees and yellow equipment near the shoulder. — Rural road and roadside equipment.

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