Papua New Guinea-1944: US Armed Forces Cemetery At Lae N°1 With Rows Of White Crosses

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Year1944
Decade1940s
LocationPapua New Guinea
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1944 Papua New Guinea

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US Armed Forces Cemetery At Lae N°1 With Rows Of White... — Clip Details

PAPUA NEW GUINEA-1944: A solemn 8mm home movie captures the United States Armed Forces Cemetery at LAE N°1. The footage opens on a weathered sign bearing the cemetery's name and emblem, then pans across rows of white crosses marking the graves of deceased military personnel. The scene unfolds in a lush, tropical setting with dense foliage surrounding the orderly plots. Shot on vintage 8mm film, the clip exhibits characteristic grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic, archival quality, offering a poignant glimpse into wartime history and remembrance.

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, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123138502

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1944 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: Papua New Guinea 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: Useful for 1940s documentary or museum edits needing wartime cemetery footage from Papua New Guinea with a clearly identified U.S. Armed Forces burial site.
Period detail: The cemetery sign, white cross grave markers, tropical vegetation, and 8mm color stock support the metadata date and location while still requiring source-reel confirmation.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, moving from the identifying cemetery sign to quiet views across the orderly grave rows.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the cemetery sign, U.S. Armed Forces wording, rows of white crosses, grass plots, a paved path, dark tree line, tropical foliage, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, color fading, exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing that retain the physical-film texture of the source.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, remembrance cutaway, wartime transition, or solemn memory beat within a Pacific theater sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a U.S. military cemetery at Lae No. 1, presenting grave markers and memorial order without showing individual mourners or ceremonies.
Research note: No people are visible, but the military cemetery, sign text, and emblem should be reviewed for contextual, trademark, and sensitive-use considerations separate from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Search matches include 1940s Papua New Guinea 8mm cemetery footage, Lae U.S. Armed Forces Cemetery, wartime grave crosses, and Pacific military memorial home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1944 Papua New Guinea material, then Pacific war cemetery, memorial, and military remembrance footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1944 Papua New Guinea footage shows a weathered United States Armed Forces Cemetery sign for Lae No. 1 New Guinea. — Cemetery entrance sign identifying the U.S. Armed Forces Cemetery at Lae No. 1.

Rows of white crosses fill a grassy U.S. military cemetery in Papua New Guinea, with trees and a path visible beyond the plots. — White cross grave markers arranged in rows beside a cemetery path.

The camera looks across orderly rows of white cross markers in the Lae cemetery, with a path and dense trees framing the graves. — Orderly rows of white cemetery crosses seen from a visitor's viewpoint.

Rows of white military grave crosses extend across the cemetery lawn in 1944 Papua New Guinea footage, with foliage in the background. — White crosses receding across the military cemetery lawn.

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