Iowa-1959: Cemetery with Gravestones and Trees

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

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Cemetery with Gravestones and Trees — Clip Details

IOWA-1959: A nostalgic 8mm home movie captures a quiet cemetery with weathered gravestones scattered across green grass, framed by mature trees and a small chapel-like structure. The footage, shot from a moving perspective, shows slight motion blur and the characteristic grain of vintage Super 8 film, with a soft color palette of faded greens and blues. The scene transitions to a rural landscape with a dirt road winding through open fields under a pale sky, evoking a sense of Americana and quiet reflection from the late 1950s.

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: 127420650

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

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Iowa home-movie footage suited for documentary cutaways about rural cemeteries, memory, landscape, and quiet Midwestern travel.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1950s rural Iowa through its 8mm color stock, modest cemetery markers, mature trees, open fields, and a nearby unpaved road.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a passing or handheld viewpoint, giving the scene the unstaged feel of a family trip or roadside pause.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include cemetery headstones, green grass, mature trees, a small chapel-like structure, open farmland, a dirt road, fence posts, and pale sky.
Film character: Soft focus, motion blur, visible grain, gate edges, and faded blue-green color give the footage a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a reflective cutaway, rural transition, cemetery insert, or memory beat between family, travel, or landscape scenes.
Historical context: The footage places a cemetery and surrounding farmland within a quiet rural setting without showing people, vehicles, services, or identifiable events.
Research note: No people, brands, or audible music are indicated, but cemetery and possible religious or memorial context should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1959 Iowa cemetery 8mm, rural graveyard home movie, Midwestern farmland road, and vintage cemetery cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1959 Iowa rural scenes, then broader cemetery, farmland, road, and memory-themed archival footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Iowa 8mm frame showing a quiet cemetery with green grass, upright headstones, mature trees, and a small chapel-like structure. — A cemetery lawn with headstones and trees appears beside a small chapel-like structure.

1959 Iowa 8mm frame with motion-blurred headstones scattered across a green cemetery lawn under pale sky. — Motion blur softens a passing view of headstones across a grassy cemetery.

1959 Iowa 8mm frame looking over green rural fields, a dirt road, fence line, and low rolling land under a pale sky. — The view shifts from cemetery grounds to open farmland and a nearby dirt road.

1959 Iowa 8mm frame showing a rural roadside with tall grass, a fence post, a leafy tree, open fields, and low hills. — Tall grass and a fence post frame a quiet rural road and distant fields.

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