Saint Francis Kansas-1959: Mid-Century Apartment Building With White Balcony

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationSaint Francis, Kansas, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 Saint Francis Kansas

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Mid-Century Apartment Building With White Balcony — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a mid-century apartment building in Saint Francis, Kansas. The two-story structure features a distinctive red brick facade and a long white balcony with railings, set against a deep blue sky. Bare tree branches frame the view, suggesting late autumn or winter. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, offering a nostalgic glimpse into American residential architecture of the late 1950s.

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: 125882244

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: 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: 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: Useful for 1950s American residential architecture requests needing a brief documentary cutaway or establishing insert from Saint Francis, Kansas.
Period detail: The red brick facade, long white balcony rail, bare trees, and simple two-story form may show mid-century apartment design in a small Kansas town.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, holding briefly on a nearby building as a casual record of place rather than a composed architectural survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a two-story red and light-colored building, white balcony railings, large windows, bare branches, a sloped roofline, and deep blue sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows saturated blue color, soft focus, visible grain, slight frame instability, and exposure shifts typical of small-gauge home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short exterior cutaway, memory beat, location texture, or transition within a sequence about 1950s housing or small-town streetscapes.
Historical context: The view provides visual context for postwar residential exteriors and modest multi-unit housing without identifying owners, occupants, or a specific building name.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and property-related uses should still be reviewed for the project.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 8mm Saint Francis Kansas apartment exterior, mid-century balcony building, small-town residential footage, and vintage home movie architecture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Saint Francis or Kansas footage from 1959, then broader 1950s residential architecture and town exterior material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Saint Francis, Kansas 8mm frame showing a two-story apartment building with white balcony railings and bare winter trees. — A mid-century apartment exterior is seen through bare branches under a deep blue sky.

Saint Francis, Kansas apartment exterior on 8mm film, with a long white balcony and leafless trees crossing the frame. — The camera holds on the long balcony and window line of the two-story building.

Soft 1959 home-movie frame of the Saint Francis apartment building, with white railings and winter branches in front. — The building remains centered as film softness and motion give the exterior a home-movie texture.

Saint Francis, Kansas 8mm frame showing the apartment building facade, white balcony rail, bare trees, and adjacent pale wall. — The final frame shows the balcony facade partly obscured by trees and a pale structure at right.

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