Iowa-1959: Man Walking Through Cemetery with Gravestones

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

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Man Walking Through Cemetery with Gravestones — Clip Details

A man in a dark button-up shirt and light trousers walks through a sunlit cemetery in Iowa, 1959. The 8mm home movie captures him passing a prominent gravestone engraved with the name 'REINCKE,' followed by a close-up of another marker reading 'ELIZABETH WIFE OF.' The footage shows natural film grain, slight camera movement, and a nostalgic, contemplative mood typical of vintage family recordings.

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: 127420534

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: Useful for 1950s Iowa home-movie requests needing cemetery visitation, family memory, genealogy, or rural Midwestern graveyard material for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, clothing, and upright granite cemetery markers support a late-1950s home-movie setting, with Iowa and 1959 supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged family-visitor perspective as a man walks among graves and the camera lingers on family-name markers.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in light trousers, REINCKE headstones, grass, upright cemetery markers, trees, dark film borders, and a close view of carved stone lettering.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, gate edges, slight handheld movement, and uneven exposure that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a memory beat, genealogy insert, cemetery cutaway, or reflective transition in a family-history or Midwestern archive sequence.
Historical context: The imagery shows a mid-century family record of cemetery visitation, emphasizing names, graves, and remembrance without documenting a specific service or public event.
Research note: People and grave inscriptions are visible, so users should review likeness, privacy, cemetery, and inscription concerns separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1959 Iowa cemetery home movie, Reince or Reincke family grave, 8mm graveyard visit, and vintage Midwestern tombstone footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Iowa 1959 material, then cemetery, genealogy, family memorial, or rural remembrance scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1959 Iowa home-movie footage, a man in light trousers passes a REINCKE gravestone in a sunlit grassy cemetery. — A man walks near a REINCKE family marker in the cemetery.

A REINCKE gravestone stands in a grassy Iowa cemetery, with a tall pale marker and other headstones behind it. — The camera frames a REINCKE marker with surrounding cemetery stones.

The 8mm camera moves close to a weathered cemetery marker, with partial lettering visible and grass behind it. — A close cemetery marker shot shows partial carved text.

A tight 8mm close-up shows blue-toned stone texture and carved grave inscription details, partly difficult to read. — The shot ends on a close detail of carved gravestone lettering.

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