Kansas-1958: Man Wearing Green Hat Walks Through Tall Grass Holding Rifle On A

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit

Useful for 1950s Kansas home-movie requests involving hunting, rural recreation, outdoor Americana, or mid-century family-shot field activity.

Period detail

The clothing, 8mm color stock, rifle, and brushy rural setting may show late-1950s outdoor recreation consistent with the supplied 1958 Kansas metadata.

Home-movie behavior

The clip has an unstaged home-movie feel, observing a man moving through grass and briefly documenting the harvested bird at close range.

What appears in frame

Visible elements include a pheasant on gravel, a man in a green cap and brown jacket, a rifle, tall dry grass, leafless brush, bright daylight, and heavy frame borders.

Film character

The footage shows saturated 8mm color, visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame edges that preserve the physical-film character.

Edit role

Editors could use this as a short hunting cutaway, rural recreation insert, outdoor transition, or memory beat in a mid-century Kansas sequence.

Historical context

The scene reflects recreational hunting in a rural setting, with the visual record limited to one adult hunter, brushland, and the harvested bird.

Research note

An adult person is visible and likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are evident, and copyright status is separate from depicted-person clearance.

Research search match

Matches searches for 1958 Kansas 8mm hunting footage, vintage pheasant hunting home movie, man with rifle in tall grass, and mid-century rural recreation.

Archive pairing path

Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Kansas 1958 outdoor footage, then broader 1950s hunting, rural leisure, or home-movie recreation clips.