France-1945: Waves on Sandy Beach with Lighthouse

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Year1945
Decade1940s
LocationFrance
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1945 France

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Waves on Sandy Beach with Lighthouse — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1945, this vintage home movie captures a serene coastal scene from France. The footage shows gentle waves rolling onto a sandy beach under a muted sky, with a distant shoreline and a faint lighthouse visible across the water. The image exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, purple color cast, film grain, and edge damage. This archival clip evokes a quiet, nostalgic moment from the post-war era, 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: 123139089

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

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: 1945 French coastal home-movie footage suited to documentary inserts, archive research, or quiet postwar seaside atmosphere.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-1940s shoreline view, with no visible people, vehicles, signs, or dated objects beyond the 8mm source and supplied year metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor perspective, holding on waves, sand, distant land, and a faint lighthouse rather than a composed travelogue scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include surf, wet sand, muted sky, a distant shoreline, low tree masses, a faint lighthouse, soft horizon lines, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, purple color shift, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet edge shadow as part of its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a coastal cutaway, reflective transition, memory beat, or establishing insert for French seaside material.
Historical context: The footage offers a quiet coastal view from France in 1945, without visible wartime activity or identifiable social events in these frames.
Research note: No people, logos, music, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and location identification before publication.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1945 France 8mm beach, vintage coastal home movie, ocean waves with distant lighthouse, and postwar French shoreline.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other France 1945 coastal footage, then broader vintage beach and ocean-wave home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

France 1945 8mm frame showing small ocean waves, a sandy beach, and a low distant shoreline under a hazy sky. — Waves roll toward a sandy beach with a distant shoreline beyond the water.

France 1945 8mm frame of choppy coastal water, foreground sand, and dark low land across the horizon. — A low shoreline sits across the water as surf moves over the beach.

France 1945 8mm frame showing surf near the beach and a dark, low shoreline in the distance. — Surf breaks along the shore beneath a pale sky and distant land.

France 1945 8mm frame with beach surf, distant shoreline, and a faint lighthouse-like tower across the water. — A faint lighthouse-like tower appears near the far shoreline beyond the waves.

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