Papua New Guinea-1944: A Long Tree With The Background Of Sky Which Is Slightly

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Year1944
Decade1940s
LocationPapua New Guinea
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1944 Papua New Guinea

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A Long Tree With The Background Of Sky Which Is Slightly — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1944, this vintage home movie captures a tall tree silhouetted against a dramatic, deep blue sky with scattered clouds. The footage, likely from Papua New Guinea, shows a slow upward pan revealing the tree's full height and surrounding forest canopy. The distinctive blue tint and film grain give it a nostalgic, archival quality, evoking mid-20th century amateur cinematography. The scene is serene and natural, with the tree standing prominently as the central subject.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123138550

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1944 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: Papua New Guinea 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

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 1940s documentary or editorial requests needing an 8mm nature cutaway from Papua New Guinea or the Pacific region.
Period detail: The frames show blue-tinted 8mm footage with a tall tropical-looking tree and sky, with the 1944 date and Papua New Guinea location supported by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera appears to linger on a single tree from below, giving the scene the observational feel of amateur travel or home-movie filming.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tall pale tree trunk, dark leafy canopy, lower forest growth, deep blue sky, scattered clouds, film grain, and black frame borders.
Film character: The clip has dense blue color, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame edges consistent with scanned small-gauge film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet nature insert, transitional sky-and-tree cutaway, or memory beat within a Pacific wartime-era sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers a visual record of landscape and amateur camerawork in a location identified as Papua New Guinea without showing people or built structures.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status, source ownership, and location identification should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1940s 8mm Papua New Guinea tree footage, blue-tinted home movie sky cutaway, tropical forest canopy, and vintage Pacific nature film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then with other 1944 Papua New Guinea material, and then with broader 1940s tropical landscape or sky cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1944 8mm footage identified as Papua New Guinea shows a tall tree silhouetted against blue sky and scattered clouds. — A tall tree stands against blue sky and cloud in the opening frame.

A tall tree in Papua New Guinea, dated by metadata to 1944, appears against a saturated blue sky and soft clouds. — The tree remains centered as clouds drift behind the dark canopy.

Blue-tinted 8mm frame of a tall tree and surrounding forest canopy, identified by metadata as Papua New Guinea in 1944. — The camera view includes more lower foliage beneath the tall tree.

Final frame shows the tall tree and forest edge under a deep blue sky, in 1944 Papua New Guinea footage per metadata. — The tree and surrounding forest fill the frame under a vivid blue sky.

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