France-1945: Red and White Barge Sinking into River

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Year1945
Decade1940s
LocationFrance
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1945 France

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Red and White Barge Sinking into River — Clip Details

FRANCE-1945: A red and white barge or ship tilts and sinks slowly into a river, its hull partially submerged and masts leaning at sharp angles. The 8mm film captures the scene with a grainy, faded quality, showing the vessel in distress near a distant shoreline. The water appears calm but the atmosphere is bleak, with a cloudy sky and muted colors enhancing the sense of loss. This archival footage offers a haunting glimpse of post-war industrial decay, likely from a home movie collection.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Slow motion
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123139264

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 a brief river or harbor vessel sinking shot for documentary, museum, education, or postwar infrastructure sequences.
Period detail: The footage may show a mid-1940s river or harbor scene, with workboat forms, muted color reversal stock, and a distant undeveloped shoreline supporting the stated France 1945 context.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from shore or a nearby vessel without staging, giving the sinking ship the incidental immediacy of a traveler or local witness filming what was happening in front of them.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red and white hull, leaning masts or spars, calm river water, distant shoreline, small white birds or floating shapes, smoke or haze, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, faded magenta-blue color, slight exposure shifts, and contact-sheet framing that preserve the texture of original amateur film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or memory beat for river transport, wartime aftermath, maritime loss, or industrial disruption sequences.
Historical context: The scene visually suggests a damaged or sinking working vessel in a calm waterway, but the frames alone do not identify the cause, owner, exact town, or event.
Research note: No people, faces, brands, or readable markings are visible, though copyright, collection permissions, and any vessel or location identification should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1945 France 8mm sinking ship, red and white barge in river, postwar harbor footage, damaged vessel home movie, and archival river transport France.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other France 1945 waterways or harbors, then broader themes of damaged vessels, postwar rivers, and industrial aftermath.

Still Frames From This Clip

France 1945 8mm frame showing a red and white vessel partly submerged in a river, with masts leaning and a soft distant shore in the background. — A red and white vessel leans and sinks slowly in calm river water near a distant shoreline.

France 1945 8mm frame of a partially submerged red and white vessel, its masts and rigging angled over calm river water near shore. — The vessel remains partly submerged, its masts tilted at sharp angles above the river.

France 1945 8mm frame showing a low red and white vessel in river water, with posts, haze, and an indistinct shoreline beyond. — A low workboat or barge sits near the waterline as haze or smoke softens the background.

France 1945 8mm frame of the river scene after the vessel has settled lower, with dark posts, a pale stern, and a hazy shore beyond. — The vessel appears lower in the water beside dark posts, with the far shoreline blurred by haze.

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