Netherlands-1946: Nice View By The Lake

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationNetherlands
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Netherlands

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Nice View By The Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside view from a moving perspective, likely from a boat or train. The footage shows calm water stretching toward a distant treeline under a muted, overcast sky. The image is framed by dark borders, with visible film grain, scratches, and slight blurriness typical of Super 8 home movies. In the final frame, a tall, slender monument or tower appears on the right, suggesting a notable landmark. The overall mood is quiet and nostalgic, evoking mid-20th century Dutch leisure and travel.

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: 123139844

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

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 Netherlands archive requests needing a quiet waterside travel insert, landscape cutaway, or period home-movie transition.
Period detail: The muted water view, low shoreline, and distant vertical tower may show a Dutch lakeside or canal-side landscape in the immediate postwar era.
Home-movie behavior: The framing feels visitor-shot from a moving boat, train, or shoreline vantage, recording scenery rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, a flat distant shoreline, low trees or buildings, overcast sky, dark film-frame borders, and a slender tower at right.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, scratches, and uneven exposure that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, reflective transition, travel cutaway, or quiet memory beat between Dutch archive scenes.
Historical context: The clip documents a modest waterside view rather than a public event, offering visual context for everyday travel or leisure in the Netherlands.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private-property interiors are visible, but landmark identification and copyright clearance should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Search matches include 1946 Netherlands 8mm lake view, Dutch waterside home movie, postwar travel footage, and vintage shoreline cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Netherlands 1946 material, then broader 1940s European waterway and travel views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Netherlands home-movie frame showing calm water, a flat distant shoreline, muted sky, and dark film gate edges. — A quiet waterside view with a low shoreline beneath an overcast sky.

Soft 8mm frame of a Dutch waterside landscape, with calm water, distant trees, pale sky, and heavy gate-edge shadows. — The shoreline remains distant as the view passes behind dark film-frame edges.

1946 Netherlands waterside view with calm water, low shore, indistinct trees or buildings, and a darker bank entering at right. — A darker edge of land appears as the camera continues across the water.

Final 1946 Netherlands frame showing calm water, distant shoreline, dark right bank, and a tall slender tower or monument. — A slender tower or monument becomes visible near the right edge of the waterside view.

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