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Papua New Guinea-1944: Column View Of A Cemetery Filled With White Crosses

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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Column View Of A Cemetery Filled With White Crosses — Clip Details

PAPUA NEW GUINEA-1944: A solemn 8mm home movie view of a military cemetery, with rows of white crosses marking graves on a grassy field. The footage, shot on Super 8 film, shows a person walking slowly through the rows, offering a poignant perspective on loss and remembrance. The scene is framed by trees and a small building in the background, with the characteristic grain and color shift of 1940s amateur film. This archival footage captures a quiet moment of reflection in a war-torn region.

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
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
123138519

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
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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

  • cemetery christian cross
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  • Papua New Guinea WWII
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  • WWII memorial site
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  • war memorial
  • colonial era footage
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  • historical archive
  • 8mm film grain
  • wartime remembrance

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Supports 1940s wartime archive requests needing a brief cemetery view for documentary, museum, education, or remembrance sequences.
Period detail
The rows of simple white crosses, grassy grounds, and 8mm color home-movie texture may show a military cemetery in Papua New Guinea during the 1940s.
Home-movie behavior
The camera holds a quiet visitor perspective as a distant person walks slowly near the graves, giving the scene an unstaged memorial quality.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include rows of white cross grave markers, green grass, trees, a path, a small background structure, and a distant walking figure.
Film character
The footage has soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, uneven exposure, and handheld framing typical of scanned mid-century 8mm film.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a solemn cutaway, memory beat, or transition within sequences about wartime loss, burial grounds, or remembrance.
Historical context
The scene visually documents a Christian-style grave field in a wartime Pacific setting without identifying individual graves or a specific cemetery name.
Research note
People are distant and not individually identifiable here, but cemetery and military-religious context still warrants editorial and rights review.
Research search match
Useful search matches include 1940s Papua New Guinea cemetery footage, 8mm military grave crosses, Pacific war burial ground, and wartime memorial home movie.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Papua New Guinea 1944 material, then broader cemetery, memorial, and wartime remembrance scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1940s Papua New Guinea home-movie frame showing white cross grave markers in a grassy cemetery with trees in the background.
Rows of white crosses stand in a grassy cemetery framed by trees.
1940s Papua New Guinea cemetery view with rows of white crosses and a distant person walking near the background path.
A distant figure walks beyond rows of white cross grave markers.
1940s Papua New Guinea home-movie frame looking across cemetery crosses toward a distant walking person and trees.
The camera looks across grave markers toward a lone distant walker.
1940s Papua New Guinea cemetery frame showing white cross grave markers, trees, and a distant person near the path.
White crosses fill the foreground while a person moves along the distant path.

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