South Dakota-1956: Plaid-Shirted Hunter Raising and Lowering Pheasants

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit

This circa 1956 hunting portrait serves documentary requests for mid-century American outdoor recreation and personal records of pheasant outings.

Period detail

The red-and-black plaid jacket, tan ammunition vest, brimmed cap and distant postwar car support a mid-century setting.

Home-movie behavior

The hunter briefly presents the birds to the camera, then looks down and adjusts them in an informal gesture between posed moments.

What appears in frame

The frame contains a hunter, pheasants with long tail feathers, a wooden-stock shotgun, an ammunition vest, dry grass and a distant car.

Film character

Muted color, soft projected detail, grain, vertical scratches and slight handheld drift give the scene its small-gauge home-movie texture.

Edit role

Use the brief lift and lowering of the birds as a self-contained hunting insert or a personal beat within an outing sequence.

Historical context

The likely South Dakota setting connects this personal hunting display with the state's documented prairie pheasant-hunting tradition.

Research note

A face, firearm and distant car are visible; copyright licensing is separate from any applicable likeness or property permissions.

Research search match

The clip matches searches for circa 1956 pheasant hunting home movies, a plaid-clad hunter with a shotgun and likely South Dakota prairie recreation.

Archive pairing path

Pair first with the same reel's hunting intertitle, hunter with cigar and waterside retrieval, then likely South Dakota scenes around circa 1956 and broader pheasant-hunting footage.