France-1945: Ship Sunk By Germans In Gironde River

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Year1945
Decade1940s
LocationFrance
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1945 France

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Ship Sunk By Germans In Gironde River — Clip Details

FRANCE-1945: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a sunken barge on the Gironde River, its hull partially submerged and tilted in the water. The grainy, purple-tinted footage shows the vessel's damaged structure against a tree-lined riverbank, with a small boat nearby. Handwritten text overlays confirm the ship was sunk by Germans during World War II. This archival clip offers a poignant glimpse of wartime destruction and river transport in postwar France.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123139227

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1945 France archive requests needing home-movie evidence of wartime damage to river transport or postwar infrastructure disruption.
Period detail: The handwritten title card and 8mm color look support a mid-1940s home-movie record of a vessel described as sunk by Germans on the Gironde River.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a private observer's brief, unstaged view from the riverbank or passing vantage point rather than a formal newsreel setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include handwritten title cards, a partially submerged barge or work vessel, river water, a tree-lined bank, distant shoreline, and film-frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, purple color shift, visible grain, gate edges, and slight exposure variation give the short clip a distinctly physical 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a concise insert, transition, or evidence cutaway within sequences about wartime damage, occupied France, or postwar recovery.
Historical context: The visible scene shows a damaged vessel in a French river setting, with the cause attributed by the filmmaker's handwritten title rather than independently verified in-frame evidence.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are visible or noted, but copyright status and any vessel or location identification should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1945 France 8mm sunken ship, Gironde River wartime damage, home movie river barge, and postwar France transport footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then other 1945 France or Gironde material, then broader clips of wartime damage and river transport.

Still Frames From This Clip

Handwritten 8mm title card identifies the Gironde River and block ships described as sunk by Germans. — Title card identifying the Gironde River and ships said to have been sunk by Germans.

Handwritten title card repeats the Gironde River note about block ships described as sunk by Germans. — Repeated handwritten title card before the river view.

A partially submerged vessel sits in the Gironde River, with water, shoreline, trees, and soft 8mm color visible. — Partly submerged vessel seen from across the river.

The damaged vessel remains partly above the Gironde River surface, with a wooded bank and film scratches in view. — Sunken vessel remains in the river near a wooded bank.

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