United Kingdom-1952: Historic Stone Building in Grassy Yard

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationUnited Kingdom
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1952 United Kingdom

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Historic Stone Building in Grassy Yard — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a historic stone building in the United Kingdom, likely a rural estate or church ruin. The black-and-white footage shows a grassy yard with a large bush in the foreground and a person walking near the structure. The camera pans slowly, revealing more of the weathered stone walls and arched windows. The grainy texture and vertical film scratches are characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the early 1950s, offering authentic archival footage for historical or nostalgic projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
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: 124605594

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: 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: 1952 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: United Kingdom 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: 1950s United Kingdom 8mm footage suited to documentary inserts needing a rural stone building, yard, and visitor-scale exterior view.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century travel or family footage, with an older stone structure, grass yard, and subdued black-and-white 8mm exposure as visible era cues.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the building from a visitor's viewpoint while a distant person walks near the stone wall, giving the scene an unstaged home-movie quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include weathered stone walls, a pitched tiled roof, arched openings, grass, a sloped path, a large bush, and a distant walking figure.
Film character: The footage has soft black-and-white contrast, visible grain, vertical scratches, slight blur, and handheld framing typical of scanned small-gauge home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing cutaway, travel-memory insert, or transition into material about historic buildings or rural visits.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for postwar-era leisure filming around older British stone architecture without confirming the site's identity or original use.
Research note: A distant person and identifiable building exterior may require likeness or property review, while copyright clearance remains separate from those concerns.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1950s United Kingdom 8mm stone building, vintage home movie yard, rural historic exterior, and black-and-white travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then United Kingdom 1952 exteriors, then broader 1950s travel or historic-building home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 United Kingdom 8mm frame showing an older stone building, grass yard, bushes, and arched wall openings. — Stone building seen across a grassy yard with bushes in the foreground.

Black-and-white 1952 United Kingdom 8mm frame with a stone structure, sloped grass, bush, and distant walking person. — A distant person walks near the stone wall beside a sloping grassy path.

1952 United Kingdom home-movie frame showing a closer section of weathered stone architecture beside a bush and grass slope. — The camera moves closer to the stone wall and arched architectural detail.

Black-and-white 8mm frame from the United Kingdom showing the stone building exterior, yard, bush, and a distant figure. — The final view holds on the stone exterior, yard, bush, and distant walking figure.

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