France-1945: Wreckage of Large Ships and Smaller Boats Around Them After Having

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Year1945
Decade1940s
LocationFrance
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1945 France

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Wreckage of Large Ships and Smaller Boats Around Them... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1945, this archival footage captures a sunken shipwreck in French waters, its hull tilted and partially submerged. Smaller boats navigate around the wreckage, with masts and rigging visible against a hazy sky. The film exhibits a distinct purple color cast and grainy texture, characteristic of wartime home movies. The scene conveys a somber, historical mood, documenting naval damage from World War II. This vintage 8mm home movie offers authentic wartime footage for documentaries, historical projects, and 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: 123139273

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: Supports requests for 1940s French wartime maritime footage showing damaged or sunken vessels for documentary, museum, education, or historical insert use.
Period detail: The 8mm frames may show postwar or wartime-era ship damage, with a tilted hull, exposed masts, rigging, and small boats in French waters.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot, observational perspective from near the water, recording the wreck and nearby boats without staging or visible participants.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large listing shipwreck, smaller boats, masts, rigging lines, calm water, a hazy shoreline, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries a purple color cast, soft focus, grain, uneven exposure, and handheld framing consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief maritime damage insert, wartime transition, harbor cutaway, or reflective memory beat in a World War II sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually documents damaged vessels in French waters, but the frames alone do not identify a specific battle, harbor, ship, or cause of sinking.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, though ship identity, location confirmation, copyright status, and property concerns should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1945 France shipwreck 8mm footage, wartime sunken ship home movie, and damaged boats in French waters.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel maritime footage, then other France 1945 clips, then broader World War II naval wreckage or harbor damage material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1945 8mm footage from France showing a large listing shipwreck with exposed masts, rigging, and surrounding water. — A large damaged vessel lists in the water with rigging and masts still visible.

A large wrecked vessel in French waters appears tilted and partly submerged, with a small boat close to its side. — The wreck remains partly above water as a smaller boat sits near the hull.

Purple-cast 8mm frame showing the wrecked ship, rigging, water, and a small light-colored boat in France. — A small boat passes near the damaged vessel in a heavily purple-tinted frame.

A small vessel moves or sits on French water near visible rigging lines, with a hazy shoreline in the background. — A smaller vessel is framed by diagonal rigging lines against the water and distant shore.

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