Iowa-1959: A Cloudy Day In The Cemetery With Several Tombstones And A Chapel

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

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A Cloudy Day In The Cemetery With Several Tombstones And... — 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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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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