France-1945: Submerged City Near Pacific Ocean

Year1945
Decade1940s
LocationFrance
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1945 France

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Submerged City Near Pacific Ocean — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1945, this vintage home movie captures a haunting view of a submerged city near the Pacific Ocean. The footage, likely from France, shows a flooded landscape with partially submerged buildings and poles rising from the water. The scene is bathed in a deep purple hue, characteristic of aged film, with visible grain and scratches. The camera remains mostly static, offering a somber, archival glimpse of a coastal area devastated by flooding, possibly due to wartime damage or natural disaster. The image evokes a sense of loss and historical memory.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123139234

Rights & Clearance

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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: France Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1940s 8mm home-movie footage suited to documentary requests for flooded coastal landscapes, damaged waterfronts, or climate and memory edits.
Period detail: The soft 8mm color, distant shoreline structures, small boats, and simple waterside poles may show a mid-1940s coastal or riverside setting in France.
Home-movie behavior: The static, observational framing gives the clip value as unstaged home-movie evidence of a flooded waterscape rather than a composed news view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open water, partially submerged posts, low dark structures, small boats, distant shoreline, trees, and pale buildings.
Film character: The footage has a purple-shifted 8mm color cast, soft focus, gate edges, dust, scratches, and mild exposure variation that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, somber transition, environmental memory beat, or visual insert for water damage and displacement themes.
Historical context: The frames show a quiet flooded landscape with no visible people, making the social cause or exact event unclear from the imagery alone.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but location, property status, copyright, and event identification should still be reviewed before final use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s 8mm flooded waterfront, France home movie water damage, submerged shoreline, coastal flooding archive, and vintage flood footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other France 1945 waterfront scenes, then broader 1940s flooding, coastal damage, or climate-memory footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1940s 8mm frame, likely France, showing open water with partially submerged poles, small boats, and a low shoreline in the distance. — A flooded waterscape with posts and boats near a distant shoreline.

Likely France in the 1940s, with floodwater covering the foreground and thin poles, boats, trees, and pale shoreline buildings beyond. — Floodwater fills the foreground beneath scattered poles and distant shore buildings.

Soft 8mm view of a flooded waterside area, likely France, with a dark low structure, leaning pole, small boats, and distant buildings. — A low structure and leaning pole sit in floodwater near the distant shore.

Purple-shifted 1940s 8mm frame, likely France, showing floodwater, scattered posts, small boats, trees, and a pale building on shore. — Floodwater surrounds scattered posts with boats and shoreline structures beyond.

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