France-1945: Cemetery with Wooden Crosses and Long Shadows

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Year1945
Decade1940s
LocationFrance
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1945 France

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Cemetery with Wooden Crosses and Long Shadows — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1945, this vintage footage captures a quiet cemetery in France, featuring weathered wooden crosses with directional signs. The scene is bathed in soft daylight, with long shadows stretching across the grassy ground. A low stone border frames the graves, and trees loom in the background, creating a somber, reflective mood. The film exhibits natural grain and slight color fading, characteristic of mid-century home movies. This archival clip offers a poignant glimpse into post-war memorial sites, ideal for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 123139079

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 1723 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1945
Reel-level location note: france,bordeux,versailles
Date: 1945 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: France 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1940s France cemetery footage suited to documentary inserts, memorial sequences, postwar atmosphere, or archival cutaways needing quiet graveside detail.
Period detail: The wooden crosses, hand-painted directional sign, low grave borders, and faded 8mm color may show a mid-1940s memorial or cemetery setting in France.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, holding on cemetery markers and signs without staging or visible participants.
What appears in frame: Visible details include wooden crosses, a directional grave sign, low stone edging, grass, grave markers, tree trunks, long shadows, and soft daylight.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, color fading, slight frame jitter, and uneven exposure that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a somber cutaway, memory beat, transitional insert, or establishing detail for wartime remembrance material.
Historical context: The scene visually supports a reflective cemetery context, but the frames alone do not identify specific individuals, battles, units, or graves.
Research note: No people, faces, brands, or audible music are evident, but cemetery and memorial use may still require copyright, location, and sensitivity review.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1940s France cemetery 8mm, wooden crosses memorial footage, vintage grave marker home movie, and postwar cemetery cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then France 1945 cemetery material, then broader 1940s memorial, graveside, and remembrance footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1945 France 8mm frame showing a wooden cemetery sign near crosses, grave markers, grass, border stones, and trees in soft daylight. — Wooden cemetery sign and crosses stand among low grave borders and shaded grass.

1945 France cemetery frame with a central wooden directional sign, surrounding crosses, pale grave markers, grass, and shaded trees. — A central wooden cemetery sign is framed by crosses, grave markers, grass, and trees.

1945 France 8mm frame showing a closer cemetery angle with wooden crosses, a signpost, grass, grave edging, and shaded trees. — The camera holds on wooden cemetery markers and a signpost beside bordered graves.

1945 France cemetery frame with multiple wooden signposts, crosses, grave borders, grass, trees, and a strong foreground shadow. — Multiple wooden markers and signs stand in a shaded cemetery plot with grass and border stones.

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