Iowa-1959: Man Standing in Cemetery

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationIowa, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 Iowa

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Man Standing in Cemetery — Clip Details

A man in light-colored trousers and a dark shirt stands in a grassy cemetery, his hands resting on his hips. The 8mm film footage, shot in 1959, captures the quiet atmosphere with natural sunlight and a soft, nostalgic color palette. The camera remains mostly static, focusing on the man's lower body before panning slightly to reveal gravestones in the background. The grainy texture and slight color fading are characteristic of vintage home movie film, evoking a sense of personal memory and historical reflection.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127420520

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Iowa home-movie cemetery footage for documentary inserts, memory sequences, genealogy programs, or archival scene-setting around visitation and remembrance.
Period detail: The light trousers, dark short-sleeve shirt, and muted 8mm color may show late-1950s casual dress in a landscaped cemetery setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor-shot quality, lingering on a standing man and nearby gravestones without formal ceremony or posed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in light trousers, a dark shirt, grass, a pale walkway, upright gravestones, sunlight, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries soft 8mm grain, faded color, mild exposure variation, and slight handheld reframing that support its home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet cutaway, memory beat, cemetery establishing insert, or transition into family history and remembrance material.
Historical context: The scene documents a casual cemetery visit in Iowa, showing maintained grass and markers without confirming a specific burial, service, or named site.
Research note: A person is visible and gravestones appear, so likeness, inscription legibility, and cemetery context should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Useful matches include 1959 Iowa cemetery home movie, vintage 8mm man in cemetery, 1950s graveyard visit footage, and family memory cemetery cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Iowa 1959 material, then related cemetery, family visit, remembrance, or rural Midwest footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Iowa 8mm frame showing a cropped man in light trousers standing near grass and a cemetery walkway. — A man stands partly cropped beside a grassy cemetery path.

Cemetery grass and walkway in Iowa, 1959, with only the edge of a standing person visible at right. — The camera holds on grass and a cemetery path with a person partly out of frame.

Cropped 1959 Iowa cemetery frame showing a man in light trousers with grass and walkway behind him. — A cropped visitor stands with one hand on his hip near the cemetery path.

1959 Iowa 8mm frame of a man standing in a grassy cemetery with gravestones visible behind him. — A man stands in sunlight with cemetery markers visible in the background.

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