Kansas-1958: Hunting Game With A Rifle

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit

This clip helps solve requests for 1950s Kansas home-movie footage of upland game hunting, rural recreation, and a hunter posing with rifle and pheasant.

Period detail

The clothing, cap, 8mm color stock, and harvested game in an open field support a late-1950s rural hunting scene, consistent with the supplied Kansas 1958 metadata.

Home-movie behavior

The value is in the informal pose as the hunter faces the camera, smiles, and displays the bird and rifle for a personal home-movie record.

What appears in frame

Visible elements include a man in plaid, tan vest, cap, rifle, harvested pheasant, dry field grass, pale sky, and soft rural background.

Film character

The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild gate marks, color fading, and handheld framing that read as authentic physical-film texture.

Edit role

An editor could use this as a brief insert, rural recreation cutaway, hunting memory beat, or transition within a mid-century outdoor-life sequence.

Historical context

The footage shows hunting as a social and recreational rural activity, with a posed display of game rather than a documented hunting action sequence.

Research note

A recognizable adult face, firearm, and dead bird are visible, so likeness, editorial context, animal-use sensitivity, and separate copyright status should be reviewed.

Research search match

Useful search phrases include 1958 Kansas hunting home movie, 8mm pheasant hunter with rifle, mid-century rural recreation, and vintage upland game footage.

Archive pairing path

Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Kansas 1958 rural scenes, then broader 1950s hunting, outdoor recreation, and farm-country footage.