Netherlands-1946: Tugboat at Sunset

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationNetherlands
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Netherlands

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Tugboat at Sunset — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a serene sunset boat ride in the Netherlands. A small yellow tugboat with a smoking stack moves across the water, leaving a white wake, while a large naval warship looms in the background. The scene transitions to a silhouetted vessel against a warm, glowing sunset over the sea. The footage shows classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and film scratches, evoking a nostalgic mid-20th century maritime atmosphere.

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: 123139767

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 European maritime archive requests needing home-movie boat travel, harbor traffic, or sunset-at-sea atmosphere for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage may show postwar Netherlands waters with a small working tugboat, a distant naval vessel, and a cargo or passenger ship silhouetted at sunset.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged traveler viewpoint, watching passing boats and the changing light from a nearby vessel rather than presenting a formal maritime survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue sea, a yellow tugboat with smoke, a distant gray warship, pale shoreline, film gate edges, sunset sky, and a dark vessel silhouette.
Film character: The scan shows soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight fading, handheld framing, scratches, and contact-print edge darkness that support its home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime cutaway, travel insert, postwar memory beat, or quiet transition from working harbor activity into sunset reflection.
Historical context: The footage visually places small working craft and larger ships in Dutch waters without identifying the vessels, port, or voyage beyond the supplied 1946 Netherlands metadata.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but vessel identity, copyright status, and any naval or property implications should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 Netherlands 8mm boat ride, vintage Dutch maritime home movie, tugboat smoke on water, naval ship background, and sunset vessel silhouette.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Netherlands 1946 maritime material, then broader 1940s boat travel, harbor, sea, and sunset footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Netherlands 8mm frame showing a yellow tugboat crossing blue water while a distant gray warship sits near the horizon. — A small yellow tugboat moves across the water with a larger warship in the distance.

A yellow tugboat throws white smoke or spray across the water, with a distant warship visible in the Netherlands 1946 home-movie frame. — The tugboat passes through the frame as white smoke trails across the water.

The small yellow tugboat continues across choppy water beneath white smoke, with a distant naval vessel still visible near the horizon. — Smoke spreads above the tugboat while the larger ship remains in the background.

A dark vessel silhouette sits on the water as the sun drops near the horizon in the 1946 Netherlands maritime home-movie footage. — A silhouetted vessel rests against the warm sunset over the sea.

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