Italy-1962: Statue Of Jesus With Arms Spread On Top Of Cathedral

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationItaly
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Statue Of Jesus With Arms Spread On Top Of Cathedral — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage footage captures a majestic statue of Jesus with outstretched arms atop a Gothic cathedral in Italy. The grainy, monochrome images show the detailed stonework of the cathedral's spire and a man in a red shirt briefly visible on a balcony. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—film grain, slight blurriness, and natural wear—evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This historic home movie offers a rare glimpse of religious architecture and everyday life in mid-century Italy.

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: 125017039

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 1712 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: vatican visit to pope,lg fountain
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: rome,italy
Date: 1962 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: Italy 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: 1960s Italian 8mm religious-architecture footage suited to documentary cutaways, travel-history context, or archive sequences about churches and devotional public art.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century visitor-shot views of a Gothic cathedral exterior, with stone tracery, pinnacles, and a rooftop statue filmed from below.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor's upward-looking perspective, lingering on architectural details and briefly catching a person on a balcony rather than staging a formal scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a robed Jesus statue with spread arms, cathedral pinnacles, arched stonework, a rose-window detail, balcony railing, and one distant person in a red shirt.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure variation, dust specks, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief religious-architecture insert, location transition, devotional cutaway, or memory beat within an Italy travel or family-film sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents how a private traveler visually recorded monumental church sculpture and facade details in Italy during the early 1960s.
Research note: People are visible at distance, and likeness, site, property, and underlying copyright considerations should be reviewed separately before final use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 Italy 8mm cathedral statue, vintage home movie Jesus arms spread, Gothic church facade Italy, and 1960s religious architecture footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1962 Italy church or city views, and then with broader religious architecture or travel home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Italy 8mm frame showing a robed Jesus statue with spread arms on top of a cathedral tower, seen from below. — Statue of Jesus above the cathedral roofline, filmed from a low angle.

1962 Italy 8mm frame with the Jesus statue centered above Gothic stonework and pale sky, bordered by film gate edges. — Low-angle view of the rooftop statue and upper cathedral structure.

1962 Italy 8mm frame showing the cathedral's upper facade, arched openings, stone pinnacles, and sculptural figures from below. — Cathedral tower details with arched stonework and sculptural ornament.

1962 Italy 8mm frame showing Gothic facade details, a rose-window form, balcony railing, and a distant person in red. — Facade detail with balcony railing and a distant visitor or worker in red.

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