New Orleans Louisiana-1962: Pan Along Whitewashed Family Tombs to a Multi-Tier Wall Vault

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationNew Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Duration8s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 · New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1962 · Louisiana & New Orleans · Reel 4c065049 contains 5 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

burial customs
funerary architecture
remembrance
immigrant community heritage
Louisiana history
mid-century home movies

Shot type: wide
Camera: pan · handheld
Setting: outdoor · cemetery with whitewashed above-ground family tombs and multi-tier wall vaults, trees behind
Time and weather: daytime · spring · clear to hazy
Lighting: flat daylight under a pale sky
People: 0 · No people visible.
Objects: above-ground family tombs · crosses · wreath · potted plant · multi-tier wall vault · sealed burial niches · inscribed pediment · trees
Readable signs: UNITED SLAVONIAN BEN. ASSN. (partly legible) · SJEDINJENO SLOVINSKO DRUŠTVO OD DOBROČINSTVA (partly legible)
Colors: blue · lavender white · teal green
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Medium

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A row of whitewashed family tombs with crosses recedes along a path.
A dark wreath hangs on a tomb front beside a potted plant.
The camera pans left and the edge of a wall vault enters the frame.
The multi-tier vault and its inscribed pediment fill the frame.
The shot holds on the grid of sealed niches against a blue sky.

Pan Along Whitewashed Family Tombs to a Multi-Tier Wall... — Clip Details

New Orleans area, Louisiana, circa 1962 home movie footage of a cemetery with whitewashed above-ground tombs. A handheld 8mm camera looks down a row of family tombs topped with small crosses, one hung with a dark wreath, then pans left to a multi-tier wall vault. The shot settles on the vault's grid of sealed niches and its inscribed pediment, which appears to name the United Slavonian Benevolent Association. Focus is soft and the colour has shifted to a cool blue.

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: 8s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001355

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People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1962 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Answers requests for early-1960s colour footage of New Orleans-style above-ground cemeteries, useful for documentaries on Louisiana burial customs and immigrant heritage.
Period detail: The blue-shifted 8mm colour and the reel's Easter section suggest circa 1962, and the tombs may show the fresh whitewash families traditionally applied.
Home-movie behavior: A family visitor walks the rows with the camera and lingers on a society vault, likely a personal stop rather than a staged view.
What appears in frame: A row of whitewashed tombs with crosses, a dark wreath on one front, a potted plant, a leafy tree, a grid of sealed niches and a lettered pediment against a pale sky.
Film character: Soft focus, heavy blue colour shift, fine vertical scratches, dust specks and dark projected corners give the clip an unmistakable small-gauge home movie texture.
Edit role: Works as an establishing shot for a cemetery sequence, a cutaway in a burial-customs segment, or a reflective memory beat.
Historical context: Above-ground tombs and wall vaults suit New Orleans's high water table, and the carved society name shows a group-owned vault among private family plots.
Research note: No people appear, but tombs, family plots and the society inscription are private property and names, so confirm cemetery and family sensitivities; underlying film copyright is separate from property concerns.
Research search match: New Orleans above-ground tombs 1960s, 8mm cemetery home movie, wall vault ovens Louisiana, Slavonian benevolent society tomb.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's Easter egg hunt clips and the women spectators in headscarves, then with other circa-1962 Louisiana footage, then with cemetery and remembrance clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Row of whitewashed cross-topped family tombs with a wreath in a New Orleans-area cemetery, Louisiana, circa 1962 — A row of whitewashed family tombs with crosses and a wreath, New Orleans area, circa 1962.
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Wall vault edge entering frame beside whitewashed tombs and a potted plant, Louisiana cemetery, circa 1962 8mm film — The camera pans left as a wall vault enters beside the tomb row, circa 1962.
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Multi-tier wall vault with an inscribed society pediment in a New Orleans-area cemetery, Louisiana, circa 1962 — A multi-tier wall vault whose pediment appears to name the United Slavonian Benevolent Association.
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Grid of sealed burial niches under a lettered cornice, Louisiana cemetery wall vault on circa 1962 8mm home movie film — The shot holds on the vault's sealed niches and lettering, New Orleans area, circa 1962.
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