France-1945: Wooden Boat Partially Submerged in Water

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Year1945
Decade1940s
LocationFrance
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1945 France

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Wooden Boat Partially Submerged in Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1945, this vintage footage captures a sun-drenched coastal scene in France, where a large wooden boat lies partially submerged and tilted in the water. The purple-tinted film shows the vessel’s masts and hull broken, with debris floating nearby. The camera pans slightly, revealing a distant shoreline with trees and structures under a hazy sky. The grainy texture and color degradation are characteristic of wartime home movie footage, evoking a somber, historical mood. This archival clip offers a poignant glimpse into post-war maritime damage, suitable for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 123139256

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 1940s France archive requests needing brief maritime damage, coastal aftermath, or home-movie evidence of a partially submerged wooden boat.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage and distant shoreline may show a mid-1940s French bay scene, with no readable signage, uniforms, or identifiable landmarks visible.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a distance and from closer angles, preserving an unstaged witness view of the damaged boat in the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open water, a tilted wooden boat, broken masts, floating debris, a low shoreline, trees, distant structures, and hazy daylight.
Film character: The clip has a soft purple color cast, visible grain, slight blur, uneven exposure, and handheld framing typical of aged 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, cutaway, or somber transition for postwar coastal damage, maritime loss, or memory-based historical sequences.
Historical context: The scene visually suggests coastal wreckage or a sinking vessel, but the frames alone do not identify the cause, date of damage, or vessel ownership.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, vessel ownership, and property context should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1945 France 8mm boat sinking, vintage home movie coastal wreckage, damaged wooden vessel in bay, and postwar maritime aftermath.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel coastal scenes, then with France 1945 material, and then with broader boat wreckage, harbor, water, or postwar aftermath footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1945 France 8mm frame showing a distant damaged boat in open water, with a low shoreline and hazy sky behind it. — Wide view of a damaged boat lying low in the bay near a distant shore.

Wide 8mm view of the bay in France, with the damaged wooden boat small in frame and shoreline details in the distance. — The camera holds a distant angle on the damaged vessel in the bay.

Closer 1945 France frame of the partially submerged wooden boat, its masts tilted and debris floating nearby in the bay. — Closer angle showing the boat's broken masts, low hull, and debris in the water.

Close 8mm frame from France showing the wrecked wooden boat listing in the bay, with debris and a distant shoreline visible. — The damaged vessel lists in the water as debris floats in the foreground.

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