Kansas-1958: Man In A Hat Walking Towards Car Opening Door With House In Background

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationKansas, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Kansas

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Man In A Hat Walking Towards Car Opening Door With House... — Clip Details

A man in a hat and vest walks toward a vintage car in a snowy rural setting, opening the door and preparing to enter. Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this grainy home movie captures a quiet winter moment with a red barn in the background. The footage shows natural film wear, including scratches and soft focus, characteristic of amateur Super 8 recordings from the late 1950s. The scene evokes a sense of everyday life in mid-century America, with muted colors and a nostalgic, candid atmosphere.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127479682

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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: 1950s Kansas home-movie footage for productions needing a brief rural winter insert of a man approaching and entering a mid-century car.
Period detail: The rounded sedan, winter clothing, snowy ground, and barn-like outbuilding may show everyday rural Midwestern life in the late 1950s.
Home-movie behavior: The man appears unposed as he walks to the parked car, opens the door, and begins to get in while the camera observes from a fixed home-movie position.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a hat-wearing man, dark vest, vintage sedan, open car door, snowy ground, red outbuilding, pale sky, and roadside utility or fence posts.
Film character: Soft focus, muted color, gate weave, scratches, and visible grain give the 8mm scan a physical home-movie texture from the original film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet insert, transition, or memory beat for rural travel, winter routines, family recollection, or mid-century everyday life.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for personal transportation and outdoor winter movement in a rural Kansas setting without identifying the people or property.
Research note: A person is visible and may require likeness review, while copyright, location, and property permissions should be assessed separately before final use.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1958 Kansas home movie, rural winter car, man opening vintage sedan door, 8mm farmstead footage, and mid-century everyday life.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Kansas 1958 rural footage, then with broader themes of winter travel and mid-century home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Kansas 8mm frame showing a bird-like shape or object by a post with snow-covered ground in the background. — A brief opening view shows a dark bird-like shape or object beside a post in the snowy yard.

A man in winter clothing approaches a mid-century car in rural Kansas, with snow on the ground and a red outbuilding behind him. — The man reaches the side of the parked car as a red outbuilding sits beyond the snowy yard.

The man opens the sedan door in the Kansas winter scene, with the rounded car body and red outbuilding visible through soft 8mm focus. — The car door swings open as the man begins to enter the vehicle.

The man is partly hidden by the open sedan door in the 1958 Kansas home-movie frame, with a red outbuilding and snow visible behind him. — The man pauses behind the open door before getting into the car.

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