Saint Francis Kansas-1959: A Clear Deep Lake On A Beautiful Day

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

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A Clear Deep Lake On A Beautiful Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a serene lake view from a distance, likely in Saint Francis, Kansas. The grainy, slightly faded image shows a calm body of water in the foreground with a hazy shoreline in the background under a pale sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics—soft focus, color shifts, and subtle scratches—evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The camera remains steady, offering a quiet, contemplative glimpse of a peaceful natural landscape from mid-century America.

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: 125882401

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 8mm documentary requests needing a quiet rural lake or reservoir establishing view from mid-century home-movie footage.
Period detail: The scene may show a 1959 visitor-shot landscape, with no visible modern structures, vehicles, signage, people, or other date-specific details in the sampled frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged value of a family or traveler pausing to record a distant body of water rather than an arranged scenic composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm blue-green water, a hazy far shoreline, low landforms, pale sky, soft horizon, film scratches, and slight exposure variation.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, muted color shift, soft focus, vertical scratches, and mild frame instability that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, quiet transition, geography cutaway, or reflective memory beat around rural travel and open water.
Historical context: The footage offers a restrained view of a lake or reservoir landscape associated by metadata with Saint Francis, Kansas, without visible social activity or infrastructure.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or obvious private property are visible, though copyright status and any location-specific permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 8mm lake footage, Kansas home movie landscape, rural shoreline cutaway, calm water archive, and mid-century travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Saint Francis or 1959 Kansas footage, then broader 1950s rural lake and travel landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 8mm home-movie frame from the Saint Francis, Kansas metadata showing calm water and a blurred far shoreline. — Distant shoreline across a quiet lake or reservoir, seen through soft 8mm film texture.

Soft 1959 lake view associated with Saint Francis, Kansas, with blue-green water and a hazy distant bank. — A still lake surface and low far bank appear through muted color and soft focus.

A mid-century 8mm frame of a quiet lake or reservoir, with the shoreline softened by haze and film wear. — The shoreline drifts across the upper frame above a broad, still water surface.

Final sampled 8mm frame showing calm water near Saint Francis, Kansas metadata, with a hazy shore and aged film texture. — A quiet water view closes the clip, with a distant shore softened by focus and age-related film texture.

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