Clarkdale Arizona-1968: Cemetery with Gravestones and Trees

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationClarksdale, Arizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1968 Arizona

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Cemetery with Gravestones and Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a quiet cemetery in Clarksdale, Arizona. The camera slowly pans across a grassy landscape dotted with tombstones, trees, and bushes under a soft, overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly faded quality, evoking a nostalgic, reflective mood. The view is framed by dark edges, suggesting it was filmed through a window or viewfinder. This archival clip offers authentic, unscripted footage of a peaceful resting place, ideal for historical or emotional storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124346708

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 1040 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: scottsdale
Reel-level year note: 1968
Reel-level location note: scottsdale arizona
Date: 1968 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: Clarksdale, Arizona, 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: Useful for 1960s archival requests needing a quiet cemetery landscape as an editorial cutaway, memory beat, or place-setting insert.
Period detail: The frames may show a late-1960s home-movie view of a landscaped cemetery, with era suggested mainly by the 8mm source, color response, and handheld framing.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational quality of a traveler or family member briefly filming a cemetery from a stationary vantage point without staging or visible participants.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open grass, scattered grave markers, tall evergreens, bare-branched trees, shrubs, a pale sky, and dark frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, muted color shifts, uneven exposure, and gate-edge darkness that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a reflective insert, transition, establishing cutaway, or visual pause around memory, place, death, or family history.
Historical context: The scene reflects a maintained outdoor burial ground in Clarksdale, Arizona, presented through informal home-movie filming rather than a documented public event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, cemetery context, and any location or property permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1968 8mm cemetery footage, Arizona graveyard home movie, grassy tombstones and trees, and vintage memorial landscape cutaways.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Clarksdale or 1968 Arizona material, then broader cemetery, memorial, or reflective landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 8mm view of a Clarksdale, Arizona cemetery with grass, evergreen trees, distant markers, and soft overcast light. — A quiet cemetery lawn is seen through dark frame edges, with tall evergreens and small grave markers across the grass.

A 1968 home-movie frame shows a grassy cemetery in Clarksdale, Arizona with trees, low markers, and muted color. — The camera continues across an open cemetery landscape with trees, scattered grave markers, and a pale sky.

Clarksdale, Arizona cemetery footage from 1968 shows a low, grassy view with trees and scattered grave markers in soft focus. — A darker frame shows the cemetery lawn stretching between trees, with small markers visible across the ground.

The pan reaches a large tree trunk in the Clarksdale, Arizona cemetery, with grave markers and trees visible across the grass. — A large tree trunk anchors the foreground while grave markers and trees remain visible across the cemetery lawn.

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