France-1945: Wooden Cross Grave Markers in Cemetery Rows

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Year1945
Decade1940s
LocationFrance
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1945 France

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Wooden Cross Grave Markers in Cemetery Rows — Clip Details

FRANCE-1945: Vintage 8mm film footage captures a solemn cemetery scene with multiple wooden crosses marking graves. The camera pans slowly across the rows of simple wooden markers, each bearing inscriptions, set in sandy soil with a low white wall and trees in the background. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, faded color saturation, and natural lighting, evoking a poignant wartime memorial atmosphere. This archival footage offers authentic historical context for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects exploring post-war France.

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: 123139080

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 requests for wartime-era memorial, burial-ground, or postwar remembrance cutaways.
Period detail: The simple wooden cross markers, low white boundary wall, sandy ground, and faded 8mm color may show a mid-1940s grave site in France.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, pausing on grave markers from close range rather than staging a formal cemetery view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include wooden cross grave markers, pale sandy soil, low white edging, dark trees, shadowed ground, and soft handheld framing.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, faded color, uneven exposure, and slight handheld drift that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a solemn cutaway, transition, or reflective memory beat in sequences about burial, mourning, or postwar remembrance.
Historical context: The scene visually suggests a modest cemetery or grave plot, but the frames do not identify individual names, a specific town, or the circumstances of the burials.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, though cemetery and religious imagery may still require context review separate from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s France cemetery 8mm footage, wooden cross grave markers, wartime memorial home movie, and old burial ground cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other France 1945 material, then broader cemetery, memorial, mourning, or wooden-cross grave footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1940s France 8mm frame showing several wooden cross grave markers in a cemetery-like setting with sandy soil and dark trees behind. — Several wooden cross markers stand in a shaded grave area behind a low white boundary.

1940s France cemetery view with multiple simple wooden cross markers, pale ground, a low wall, and tree shade in the background. — A row of wooden grave crosses is seen across pale ground with trees beyond the wall.

1940s France 8mm frame with a larger foreground wooden cross and several smaller grave markers set near a low white cemetery wall. — A larger cross in the foreground anchors the view of smaller markers behind it.

1940s France cemetery footage frame showing wooden cross grave markers across a shaded plot with pale soil and trees in the background. — The camera settles on several cross-shaped grave markers in a shaded cemetery plot.

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