Iowa USA-1959: American Navy Honor Guard Marching With Flag

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationIowa, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 Iowa

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American Navy Honor Guard Marching With Flag — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a U.S. Navy honor guard marching in formation during a parade in Iowa. Soldiers in dark uniforms with white belts and caps carry rifles and a large American flag, moving in precise steps across a paved street. Spectators line the route behind a white fence, watching under a bright, sunny sky with trees in the background. The footage shows natural film grain and slight color fading, preserving the authentic look of a mid-century American patriotic event.

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: 124867085

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 1319 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: iowa
Date: 1959 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: Iowa, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Iowa parade coverage, patriotic civic-event sequences, and documentary inserts needing U.S. Navy honor guard movement on 8mm home-movie film.
Period detail: The dark uniforms, white cross belts, rifles, large U.S. flag, seated spectators, and faded color 8mm look support a late-1950s civic or patriotic parade setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a spectator-shot home-movie viewpoint, observing the formation from across the parade route with crowd heads and framing interruptions visible.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a Navy honor guard, rifles, a large American flag, paved parade route, seated spectators, white fence or curb, trees, and bright daylight.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm resolution, visible grain, slight color fading, handheld framing, and contact-frame jitter that give it authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, patriotic transition, civic-memory beat, or cutaway within a sequence about mid-century parades and public ceremony.
Historical context: The scene visually reflects a public patriotic gathering, with uniformed service members marching before spectators in a town or campus-like outdoor setting.
Research note: People and military uniforms are visible, so likeness and editorial-context review may be needed; no logos or private property are apparent from these frames.
Research search match: Search matches include 1959 Iowa 8mm parade footage, U.S. Navy honor guard home movie, American flag parade, and mid-century patriotic ceremony.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel parade material, then other Iowa 1959 clips, then broader 1950s U.S. civic, military, flag, and spectator-event footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1959 Iowa home-movie footage, uniformed service members march with rifles and a large American flag during a parade. — Honor guard members advance with rifles and a large U.S. flag on a sunny parade route.

Uniformed honor guard members in Iowa appear mid-march with rifles and a large American flag, seen through soft 8mm color. — The formation bunches briefly as the flag and rifles move across the parade route.

Four uniformed service members march away with a U.S. flag before a seated crowd in 1959 Iowa parade footage. — Four marchers proceed down the route with spectators seated along both sides.

The honor guard marches away in 1959 Iowa footage, carrying a waving American flag past seated parade spectators. — The group moves farther down the route as the flag waves above the formation.

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