France-1945: Sunset over Field in France

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Year1945
Decade1940s
LocationFrance
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1945 France

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Sunset over Field in France — Clip Details

FRANCE-1945: A hauntingly beautiful sunset unfolds over a dark, empty field, captured on 8mm film. The sky glows with soft pink and deep purple hues, streaked with wispy clouds. Silhouetted against the horizon are faint structures, possibly industrial towers. The footage shows natural film grain, scratches, and slight color fading, characteristic of vintage home movie stock. This atmospheric clip evokes a sense of quiet nostalgia and historical stillness, perfect for documentary, editorial, or retro-themed projects.

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: 123139705

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 home-movie atmosphere, especially sunset inserts, reflective transitions, or wartime-era rural establishing material without people present.
Period detail: The frames offer few date-specific clues beyond the 8mm source and metadata, with a dark open field and faint horizon structures that may show rural or industrial edges in France.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in an unstaged home-movie view of sky and horizon, held on a quiet sunset rather than a planned public event or identifiable subject.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a purple-pink sky, layered clouds, a dark field, a low horizon, faint vertical structures, soft exposure shifts, and contact-sheet frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries physical 8mm texture through visible grain, scratches, color fading, slight instability, and soft dusk exposure.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short atmospheric insert, memory beat, scene transition, or quiet cutaway for archival sequences set around France in the 1940s.
Historical context: The image suggests a subdued rural or edge-of-town landscape at sunset, but the frames do not support claims about a specific event, landmark, or community.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or clear private property are visible, though copyright and source licensing should still be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1945 France 8mm sunset, 1940s home movie sky, purple dusk over field, vintage French rural horizon, and archival empty landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then with France 1945 footage, and then with other 1940s sky, dusk, field, or reflective landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1945 France 8mm frame showing a purple-pink sunset over a dark open field, with faint vertical shapes on the horizon. — Purple dusk sky over a nearly black field and low horizon.

1945 France 8mm sunset view with pale pink clouds, purple shadow, a dark field, and a small silhouette near the horizon. — Soft cloud bands sit above a dark, empty field at sunset.

1945 France 8mm frame with streaked dusk clouds, a dark empty foreground, faint horizon structures, and visible film wear. — Streaked dusk clouds and film marks over a dark horizon.

1945 France 8mm frame showing a faded pink sunset, purple cloud layers, and a nearly black empty field below. — Faded pink and purple sunset over a silhouetted field.

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