France-1945: German Submarine Pens Followed By Long Distance View Of A Body Of

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Year1945
Decade1940s
LocationFrance
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1945 France

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German Submarine Pens Followed By Long Distance View Of... — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from France in 1945 captures a title card reading 'German Submarine Pens' in handwritten white text on a dark screen, followed by a long-distance view of a large industrial waterfront facility. The scene shows a massive concrete structure along the water's edge, likely a submarine pen, with a body of water in the foreground and distant hills under a pale sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, color fading, and slight instability, evoking a raw, historical wartime perspective.

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: 123139393

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 documentary edits needing home-movie evidence of German submarine pen signage and a distant waterfront military-industrial structure.
Period detail: The handwritten title card, 8mm color stock, and distant concrete waterfront installation support a wartime or immediate postwar 1940s setting in France.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, moving from a homemade identifying title card to a brief long-distance view across the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include handwritten title cards, dark leader-like background, blue water, a large concrete waterfront structure, dock edge, low hills, and pale sky.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, color shift, soft focus, gate edges, and slight frame instability that preserve the physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a title-led insert, location setup, transition, or brief evidentiary cutaway in a wartime infrastructure sequence.
Historical context: The view may show a German submarine pen or related concrete waterfront facility, but the frames alone do not identify the exact site.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, archive source rights, and site identification should still be checked before use.
Research search match: Researcher searches might include 1945 France 8mm German submarine pens, wartime waterfront facility home movie, and submarine pen title card footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then with France 1945 waterfront material, then with World War II industrial or naval infrastructure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1940s 8mm frame with a handwritten title card reading German Submarine Pens against a dark background. — Handwritten title card identifies the sequence as German Submarine Pens.

Handwritten German Submarine Pens title card on dark 8mm film, with visible grain and soft focus. — The title card remains on screen before the exterior view.

A repeated 8mm title card reading German Submarine Pens, with scratches and color fading visible in the frame. — A third title-card frame shows visible film wear and handwritten lettering.

Distant view in France of a large concrete waterfront facility across blue water, possibly a submarine pen. — Long-distance view across the water toward a large concrete waterfront structure.

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