Ireland-1961: Man Building Dry-Stone Wall in Green Valley

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationIreland
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Ireland

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Man Building Dry-Stone Wall in Green Valley — Clip Details

Vintage 1961 8mm home movie footage from Ireland showing a man in a light-colored suit placing stones along a roadside dry-stone wall in a lush green valley. The film captures the rural Irish landscape with rolling hills, a narrow paved road, and scattered farm structures under overcast skies. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, color saturation, and slight camera shake, offering authentic archival material of mid-century Irish countryside life and traditional stone wall construction.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121312533

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.

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: 1961 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Ireland Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for archive requests needing 1960s Irish rural life, roadside craft work, or countryside travel material for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences.
Period detail: The light suit, narrow paved road, hand-built stone boundary, and color 8mm home-movie look support a mid-century rural Ireland setting consistent with the supplied 1961 date.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie feel as a man pauses by a roadside wall and appears to place or adjust stones while the camera observes from close range.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a light suit, a dry-stone roadside wall, a narrow road, green fields, fence posts, distant hills, scattered farm structures, and overcast sky.
Film character: The clip shows soft 8mm color, visible grain, mild gate edges, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that preserve the physical character of the original film scan.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, rural transition, craft cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about Irish countryside, travel, land boundaries, or traditional labor.
Historical context: The scene visually records a rural roadside landscape where stone walls, pasture, and small structures frame everyday movement through the Irish countryside.
Research note: A visible adult face or likeness may require review depending on use, while copyright, location, likeness, and any property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1961 Ireland 8mm home movie, Irish countryside dry-stone wall, rural roadside stone wall, man placing stones, and mid-century green valley footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1961 Ireland countryside material, then broader rural wall-building, farming landscape, or travel home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1961 Ireland, a man in a light-colored suit bends near a dry-stone wall beside a narrow road in a green rural valley. — A man bends to place or adjust stones along a roadside wall in the countryside.

In the Irish countryside, the man stands near the roadside dry-stone wall with green fields and low hills in the distance. — The man stands by the wall as the road curves through the valley landscape.

The camera holds on the stone wall beside the narrow road, with green Irish fields, fence posts, and hazy hills beyond. — A quiet view of the roadside wall, road, and valley after the man leaves the frame.

A wider rural Irish view shows stone boundary walls, green pasture, wet ground, scattered rocks, and small farm structures under cloudy light. — A wider countryside view shows stone boundaries and farm structures across the pasture.

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