Milwaukee Wisconsin-1953: Girl Kneeling At Gravestone In Cemetery

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationMilwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Wisconsin

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Girl Kneeling At Gravestone In Cemetery — Clip Details

A young girl in a patterned dress kneels beside a weathered purple gravestone in a grassy cemetery, her hands gently touching the stone engraved with the name 'WILLIAM'. Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a quiet, somber moment of remembrance. The footage shows natural film grain and slight color fading, characteristic of mid-century home recordings. The scene is intimate and still, with the girl's focused attention on the memorial, evoking a sense of family history and nostalgia.

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: 123357117

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 1212 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1953-1954
Reel-level location note: wisconsin
Date: 1953 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Milwaukee 8mm cemetery footage for documentary or museum edits needing a quiet family-remembrance moment around a gravestone.
Period detail: The patterned dress, home-movie framing, small upright marker, and color 8mm texture may show mid-century family cemetery visiting customs.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged visit as a kneeling figure gently handles or points near a weathered gravestone.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a kneeling person, patterned dress, grass, small stone marker, engraved WILLIAM lettering, shadow, and dark film borders.
Film character: The footage has saturated 8mm color, visible grain, soft focus, slight fading, and handheld contact-sheet framing that reads as physical home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a remembrance insert, family-history cutaway, cemetery transition, or quiet memory beat between narration passages.
Historical context: The scene reflects a private cemetery visit and memorial attention without enough visual evidence to identify the deceased or family relationship.
Research note: People are visible and the gravestone name is partly readable, so likeness, privacy, and cemetery-context sensitivity should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1950s Milwaukee cemetery home movie, 8mm gravestone visit, family remembrance footage, and weathered WILLIAM headstone.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1953 Milwaukee family footage, then broader cemetery, memory, or genealogy-themed home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Milwaukee 8mm frame showing a kneeling person in a patterned dress beside a weathered gravestone in grass. — A kneeling figure pauses beside a small WILLIAM gravestone in a grassy cemetery.

1953 Milwaukee cemetery frame with a kneeling person reaching toward the ground beside a weathered WILLIAM marker. — The visitor reaches near the base of the gravestone while kneeling in the grass.

1953 Milwaukee 8mm close view of a small weathered gravestone, with WILLIAM lettering visible in a grassy cemetery. — The camera settles on the weathered stone marker and its partially legible name.

1953 Milwaukee 8mm frame of a low gravestone in grass, with partial WILLIAM engraving visible and no person in this frame. — A final view isolates the small gravestone against the surrounding grass.

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