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Iowa-1959: Cemetery with Tombstones and Chapel Among Trees

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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Cemetery with Tombstones and Chapel Among Trees — Clip Details

IOWA-1959: A nostalgic 8mm home movie captures a quiet cemetery on a cloudy day, with rows of tombstones and a small chapel nestled among trees. The footage shows gentle camera movement across the grassy grounds, highlighting the aged gravestones and a few floral tributes. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, faded colors, and slight motion blur, evoking a sense of memory and reflection from the late 1950s. This archival clip offers a peaceful, contemplative view of a rural American cemetery.

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
127420629

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 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

  • day
  • cloudy
  • tomb
  • cemetery
  • gray
  • equal
  • tombs
  • ashes
  • objects
  • iowa
  • 1959
  • 1959 cemetery footage
  • vintage 8mm film
  • Iowa cemetery
  • cloudy day
  • tombstones
  • gravestones
  • 1950s home movie
  • archival footage
  • old film
  • nostalgic
  • memorial
  • graves
  • church
  • chapel
  • family history
  • vintage film
  • old footage
  • 8mm home movie
  • 1950s
  • rural America
  • film grain
  • motion blur

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
1950s Iowa 8mm cemetery footage for documentary inserts, memorial sequences, rural Americana context, or quiet archival transitions.
Period detail
The clip may show mid-century cemetery grounds, with upright stone markers, floral tributes, mature trees, and a small chapel-like structure visible in the frames.
Home-movie behavior
The camera observes the cemetery from a visitor's perspective, panning gently across graves and lawn without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame
Visible details include rows of tombstones, green cemetery lawn, floral grave decorations, large shade trees, distant horizon, and a small peaked-roof chapel or shelter.
Film character
The 8mm scan has soft focus, faded color, visible grain, handheld movement, and light exposure variation typical of home-movie footage.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a contemplative cutaway, memory beat, location insert, or transition into themes of family, death, remembrance, or rural place.
Historical context
The footage reflects a quiet cemetery visit in Iowa, showing grave markers and maintained grounds as part of everyday family memory and local ritual.
Research note
No people, brands, or readable names are apparent, but gravestones and cemetery setting may warrant review for location, inscription, copyright, and property considerations.
Research search match
Useful for searches such as 1950s Iowa cemetery 8mm, rural cemetery home movie, tombstones and chapel, memorial cutaway, and archival graveyard footage.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Iowa 1959 material, then cemetery, remembrance, rural landscape, or family-history footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Iowa 8mm frame showing a cemetery lawn with grave markers, trees, and a small chapel-like shelter in soft focus.
A cemetery view with upright stones, trees, and a small peaked-roof structure.
1959 Iowa cemetery grounds with upright grave markers, floral tributes, mature trees, and a small chapel-like structure.
Rows of grave markers stand across the cemetery lawn near a small shelter or chapel.
1959 Iowa 8mm frame looking across a cemetery lawn toward scattered tombstones, flowers, trees, and a distant horizon.
The view opens across the cemetery grounds, with scattered stones and flowers on the grass.
1959 Iowa cemetery scene with foreground grave markers, floral decorations, trees, and a small peaked-roof shelter behind them.
Foreground stones and flowers frame a quiet cemetery view with trees and a small structure beyond.

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