Saint Francis Kansas-1959: Zoom Of An Old Blue Car Near A House

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

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Zoom Of An Old Blue Car Near A House — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a quiet street scene in Saint Francis, Kansas. A classic blue sedan drives slowly along the road, passing a brick commercial building with white columns. The footage, viewed through a window, shows a grassy foreground and bare trees, suggesting early spring. The film exhibits natural grain, slight blur, and vertical scratches, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. The scene evokes a sense of everyday life in a small American town during 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: 125882257

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 1950s small-town Kansas street footage for documentary inserts, regional history programs, and period everyday-life sequences.
Period detail: The older blue sedan, brick building, white columns, bare trees, and quiet street may show mid-century town architecture and vehicle design.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, watching a car and street from behind or near a window rather than from a planned production setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue sedan, brick building, white columns, bare trees, grass, road surface, and a darker parked vehicle or trailer.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, muted color, visible grain, slight gate movement, and vertical scratches as part of its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief cutaway, town-establishing insert, memory beat, or transition into a 1950s rural Kansas sequence.
Historical context: The scene suggests everyday mobility and roadside architecture in a small American town without showing identifiable people or a specific public event.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location context, and any property-related use should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Searchers might look for 1959 8mm Kansas street scene, vintage blue car in small town, rural Midwest home movie, or 1950s road cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with shots from the same reel, then Saint Francis Kansas 1959 material, then 1950s small-town streets, cars, houses, and roadside buildings.

Still Frames From This Clip

Wide 1959 Saint Francis, Kansas street view with grass in the foreground, bare trees, and small-town buildings beyond the road. — Wide street view through a soft 8mm frame, with bare trees and buildings across the road.

Blue sedan on a Saint Francis street near a brick building with white columns, with bare trees and another vehicle in the background. — A blue sedan appears near a brick building with white columns on a quiet town street.

Closer 8mm view of the blue sedan beside the columned brick building, with a darker vehicle or trailer partly visible beyond trees. — The zoom brings the blue sedan and the building entrance closer in frame.

Blue sedan centered near a brick building in Saint Francis, Kansas, with grass in the foreground and bare trees along the street. — The final frame holds on the sedan, street, grass, and building frontage.

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