France-1945: Submerged Crosses In Flooded Cemetery

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Year1945
Decade1940s
LocationFrance
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1945 France

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Submerged Crosses In Flooded Cemetery — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1945, this vintage home movie captures a somber, overcast view of a flooded riverside or coastal area in France. The purple-tinted footage shows submerged crosses and markers rising from the water, indicating a flooded cemetery. The camera pans slowly across the scene, revealing the extent of the inundation and the quiet, melancholic atmosphere. This archival clip offers a poignant glimpse into post-war conditions and the lasting impact of natural disasters on sacred ground.

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: 123139245

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: 1940s French archive footage for productions needing a brief visual record of flooded burial ground or riverside inundation.
Period detail: The 8mm frames may show mid-1940s France through soft color reversal stock, simple cross markers, and an undeveloped waterfront or cemetery edge.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes slowly from a distance, giving the scene the quiet, unstaged perspective of a traveler or resident recording flood conditions.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippled floodwater, partially submerged crosses, low shoreline structures, dark tree shapes, small floating objects, and hazy sky.
Film character: The clip has purple-tinted color, soft focus, visible grain, rounded frame edges, and slight handheld drift typical of scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a somber cutaway, transition, or memory beat for flooding, loss, postwar landscapes, or damaged sacred ground.
Historical context: The footage visually documents water covering markers in what appears to be a cemetery or memorial area, without proving the cause of the flooding.
Research note: No people, brands, or music are indicated, but religious or funerary markers and exact site identification should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1945 France 8mm flood, submerged cemetery crosses, flooded graves home movie, and postwar French waterfront inundation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel scenes, then other 1945 France footage, then related flood, cemetery, religious marker, or postwar landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1945 France 8mm frame showing rippled floodwater, distant shore, and a leaning dark marker near the waterline. — Floodwater stretches toward a low shoreline with a leaning marker visible in the distance.

1945 France 8mm view of a flooded waterfront or cemetery edge with small markers rising from the water. — Small vertical markers stand above floodwater near a distant, tree-lined shore.

1945 France 8mm frame showing white cross markers partly surrounded by floodwater near a low shore. — White cross markers rise from the floodwater as the camera pans across the inundated area.

1945 France 8mm frame of several cross-shaped markers standing in floodwater near a hazy shore. — Several cross-shaped markers remain visible above the water near the end of the pan.

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