Netherlands-1946: Cargo Ship Sailing on River

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationNetherlands
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Netherlands

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Cargo Ship Sailing on River — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a large cargo ship navigating a river in the Netherlands. The vessel, with its dark hull and red superstructure, moves steadily through the water, leaving a wake behind. The footage is viewed from another boat, with the edge of the frame visible, adding to the authentic, personal feel. The image shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and minor scratches, characteristic of mid-20th century amateur recordings. The distant shoreline features industrial structures and trees under a pale sky, evoking a sense of post-war commerce and daily life.

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: 123139886

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 river transport, cargo shipping, postwar commerce, or home-movie maritime cutaways.
Period detail: The dark cargo vessel, low industrial shoreline, and color 8mm look support a mid-1940s European river-traffic setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged passenger viewpoint from another boat, with framing obstructions and handheld timing that preserve the home-movie encounter.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large cargo ship, river water, white wake, distant shoreline, industrial structures, pale sky, and dark boat-edge framing.
Film character: The footage carries soft 8mm grain, slight color fading, minor scratches, and variable handheld exposure that read as physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime insert, travel transition, commerce cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a Netherlands or postwar sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually places inland or river shipping within everyday Netherlands waterside activity without identifying a specific port or vessel.
Research note: No readable logos are visible, but people are flagged in the clip metadata, so likeness review remains separate from copyright assessment.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1946 Netherlands 8mm cargo ship, Dutch river transport home movie, vintage boat footage, and postwar shipping cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Netherlands 1946 river scenes, then broader cargo shipping or industrial transport footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Netherlands home-movie frame showing a large cargo ship on a river, seen from another boat with dark framing at the edge. — A large cargo vessel moves along the river, leaving a white wake behind it.

Large cargo vessel underway on a Netherlands river in 1946, filmed from a nearby boat with soft 8mm color and edge obstruction. — The vessel continues forward across the river, with the shoreline faintly visible beyond.

The cargo ship fills more of the frame as it passes on the river, with a dark hull, red upper structure, and distant Netherlands shoreline. — The ship draws nearer, its dark hull and wake prominent against the river water.

A 1946 Netherlands 8mm frame shows the cargo vessel passing close by, with river wake, pale sky, and distant industrial shoreline. — The vessel passes close to the filming boat, its wake trailing along the river surface.

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