Colorado USA-1963: Headstones In Sunny Cemetery With Iron Fence

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Year1963
Decade1960s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1963 Colorado

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Headstones In Sunny Cemetery With Iron Fence — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1963, this vintage home movie captures a quiet moment at a Colorado cemetery. The footage focuses on weathered white headstones, including one for T.C. Henry, 1st Mayor of Arlene, and another for Joseph McCoy, founder of the cattle trade. The scenes unfold on a sunny day, with green grass, a black iron fence, and a stone wall visible. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 footage evokes a strong sense of nostalgia and historical memory.

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: 125499072

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 1954 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: prom
Reel-level year note: 1963
Reel-level location note: denver colorado
Date: 1963 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: Colorado, 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: 1960s 8mm cemetery footage suited for documentary inserts about memory, frontier history, burial sites, or archival travel views in Colorado.
Period detail: The clip shows mid-century color home-movie handling of older white headstones, a black iron fence, grass, and stonework, with inscriptions naming T.C. Henry and Joseph McCoy.
Home-movie behavior: The camera behaves like a visitor pausing at individual graves, reframing from wider cemetery views to a closer readable headstone.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white upright headstones, green cemetery grass, a black iron fence, a stone wall or large stonework, sunlit ground, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, handheld framing, and contact-sheet edge artifacts that signal original amateur film texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a quiet cutaway, reflective transition, historical memory beat, or insert between narration about burial places and local history.
Historical context: The footage documents how a 1963 home-movie camera recorded cemetery markers tied to civic and cattle-trade identities without showing visitors or ceremony.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but inscriptions on graves and cemetery grounds may still require contextual and property-rights review.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1960s 8mm cemetery headstones, Colorado home movie grave marker, Joseph McCoy headstone footage, and vintage cemetery iron fence.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Colorado 1963 cemetery or travel footage, and then with broader archival graveyard or memorial cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1963 8mm Colorado cemetery view with a white headstone in sunlit grass, an iron fence behind it, and stonework at right. — A white cemetery marker stands in grass beside an iron fence and stonework.

1963 8mm cemetery frame showing a white T.C. Henry headstone in a grassy plot with a black iron fence behind it. — The T.C. Henry marker is framed from a short distance in the cemetery.

1963 8mm Colorado cemetery shot with the T.C. Henry headstone angled in the foreground and iron fencing behind it. — A closer handheld view centers the T.C. Henry grave marker.

1963 8mm cemetery close-up of a white Joseph McCoy headstone reading founder of cattle trade and probably buried in Wichita. — The Joseph McCoy marker fills the frame in a closer cemetery view.

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