Kansas-1958: A Vehicle Is Moving Through A Bridge Over The River

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationKansas, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Kansas

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A Vehicle Is Moving Through A Bridge Over The River — Clip Details

KANSAS-1958: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a vehicle crossing a bridge over a wide river. The footage begins with a title card reading 'WE CROSS THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI,' followed by views from inside the moving vehicle. The camera looks out through a window, showing a hazy, overcast sky and the distant riverbank. As the vehicle moves forward, the bridge structure comes into view, with railings and concrete supports passing by. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, scratches, and a soft focus, evoking a nostalgic 1950s Americana road trip.

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: 127478781

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: 1958 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: 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 road-trip or river-crossing archive requests needing a short vehicle-window view from 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The title metadata and soft color 8mm look support a 1958 setting, while the frames show a bridge crossing, river water, railings, and hazy distant shoreline.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged passenger perspective, filmed from inside a moving vehicle as the bridge and river pass by the window.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a vehicle window frame, pale sky, wide river, distant shoreline, bridge roadway, railings, concrete supports, and blurred structural members.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, muted exposure, visible dust, scratches, and slight instability consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a travel insert, route transition, bridge-crossing cutaway, or memory beat within a midcentury Americana sequence.
Historical context: The view suggests automobile-era family travel across a major river, with the camera prioritizing the crossing experience over a formal landmark view.
Research note: No people, brands, or readable signs are visible, but copyright status and any bridge or location identification should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 8mm road trip footage, car crossing bridge over river, Mississippi River bridge home movie, and midcentury travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then Kansas or 1958 travel material, then broader bridge, river crossing, and vintage road-trip footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm view from inside a vehicle, looking through a window toward hazy river water and a distant shoreline. — A window-framed view of the river and far bank during the crossing.

A soft 8mm passenger-window view shows a wide river and distant bank during the bridge crossing. — The vehicle window frames the river and horizon as the crossing continues.

From a moving vehicle on a bridge, the camera looks ahead along the roadway with railings and blurred bridge structure visible. — The bridge deck and railings come into view from the passenger perspective.

A dark vehicle-window post and diagonal interior edge frame the bridge railings and concrete supports during the river crossing. — Bridge railings and support spans pass by beyond the vehicle window.

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