Netherlands-1946: Naval Vessel and Yellow Tugboat

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationNetherlands
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Netherlands

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Naval Vessel and Yellow Tugboat — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage footage captures a harbor scene from the Netherlands, featuring a large naval vessel anchored in calm blue waters. The view is framed by a dark border, suggesting a home movie perspective. In the final frame, a yellow tugboat with a smoking stack moves across the foreground, adding motion to the tranquil maritime setting. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and age marks, evoking a nostalgic mid-20th century atmosphere. This archival clip offers authentic wartime-era maritime imagery for historical or editorial use.

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: 123139763

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1946 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Netherlands Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s maritime or postwar Netherlands sequences needing authentic 8mm harbor cutaways with naval and working-boat activity.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-1940s harbor traffic, with a large naval vessel, open water, and a small smoking tugboat visible in the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, observing ships from shore or another vessel without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue harbor water, a large naval vessel, distant shoreline, dark film-frame borders, a small tugboat, smoke from its stack, and hazy sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, gate edges, and age marks that support its physical-film archive character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime insert, harbor transition, naval cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a 1940s Netherlands sequence.
Historical context: The view documents harbor movement and naval presence in the Netherlands in 1946, while the exact vessel identity and harbor location remain unverified.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and military-vessel identification should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1946 Netherlands harbor 8mm film, vintage naval vessel at sea, postwar harbor tugboat, and Dutch maritime home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Netherlands harbor material, then broader vintage maritime and tugboat footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A large naval vessel sits on blue harbor water in Netherlands 8mm footage from 1946, framed by dark film edges. — Large naval vessel seen across blue harbor water.

Naval vessel held in a steady harbor view.

A large naval vessel remains in view near the horizon in 1946 Netherlands harbor footage, with blue water and visible 8mm frame edges. — Large vessel near the horizon in a harbor scene.

A small yellow tugboat with a smoking stack crosses the foreground while a larger vessel sits beyond it in the 1946 Netherlands harbor scene. — Smoking tugboat passes before a larger harbor vessel.

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