Kansas-1958: Doctor Out For Lunch During His Lunch Break While At Work

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

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Doctor Out For Lunch During His Lunch Break While At Work — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a humorous office moment in Kansas. A title card reads 'ALL OUT FOR LUNCH. EVEN "DOC" BAUER,' indicating a workplace break. The grainy, slightly blurred footage shows a street scene with classic cars and a building, viewed through a window frame. The film's aged texture and soft focus evoke a nostalgic, mid-century American office culture.

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: 127478816

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 Kansas workplace, small-town office, or doctor-at-lunch references in documentary, museum, education, or period editorial edits.
Period detail: The title-card lettering and brief street view with mid-century cars may show a late-1950s office setting in Kansas, as supported by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an informal workplace joke, using a hand-labeled title card to note that everyone, including "Doc" Bauer, is out for lunch.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a soft street view, parked cars, a road curve, window-like dark framing, gray title-card surface, white raised letters, and film dust.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a humorous insert, lunch-break transition, office cutaway, or brief memory beat within a mid-century workday sequence.
Historical context: The clip gives a small social glimpse of workplace lunch culture through a home-movie title card rather than a staged office scene.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are visible or flagged, but copyright, title-card authorship, and any real-person name reference should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Search matches include 1958 Kansas 8mm home movie, doctor out for lunch title card, mid-century workplace break, and vintage office humor footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Kansas 1958 material, then other mid-century workplace, lunch-break, or office-life clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Kansas 1958 8mm frame showing a blurred street scene with parked mid-century cars, a road curve, and dark window-like borders. — Soft street view with parked cars and dark framing at the edge of the 8mm frame.

1958 Kansas home-movie title card with white raised letters reading ALL OUT FOR LUNCH. EVEN "DOC" BAUER. — Title card notes that everyone, including "Doc" Bauer, is out for lunch.

Close 8mm frame of the Kansas 1958 lunch title card, with white letters on a gray surface and visible film grain. — Close view of the lunch-break title card naming "Doc" Bauer.

Darker 1958 Kansas 8mm title-card frame showing the lunch-break message and "Doc" Bauer name in raised white letters. — Darker exposure of the same title card about "Doc" Bauer being out for lunch.

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