Netherlands-1946: Young Man Operating Searchlight At Sea

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationNetherlands
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Netherlands

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Young Man Operating Searchlight At Sea — Clip Details

A young man in a light-colored shirt stands on a ship's deck in the Netherlands in 1946, operating a large, illuminated searchlight against the vast blue ocean. The 8mm home movie footage captures the man adjusting the powerful light, its beam cutting through the daylight as he scans the horizon. The scene, framed by the dark edges of the film, shows the open sea under a pale sky, with the man's focused actions suggesting a moment of vigilance or communication at sea. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film evokes a strong sense of mid-century maritime history and personal memory.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123139895

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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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 archive requests needing home-movie footage of a person handling a shipboard searchlight at sea.
Period detail: The visible ship deck, large searchlight, open water, and color 8mm look support a mid-1940s maritime setting consistent with the Netherlands 1946 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the informal observation of a young man adjusting equipment on deck rather than a staged demonstration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a young man, a large round searchlight, a smaller deck fixture, railing, open sea, pale sky, and black film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, soft focus, strong contrast, slight color fading, and contact-sheet framing that preserve its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime insert, vigilance cutaway, travel transition, or brief memory beat within postwar sea-journey material.
Historical context: The scene shows everyday shipboard activity at sea and may suggest communication or watchkeeping without proving a specific naval or commercial purpose.
Research note: A person is visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright clearance remains separate from depicted-person rights.
Research search match: Search phrases might include 1940s 8mm shipboard searchlight, Netherlands home movie at sea, young man on boat deck, and vintage maritime footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Netherlands 1946 travel material, then broader 1940s maritime and shipboard equipment scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Netherlands 1946 home-movie footage, a young man stands near a glowing round searchlight on a ship deck facing the open sea. — Young man operating or standing beside a lit searchlight at sea.

The young man remains beside the shipboard searchlight, silhouetted against the blue sea and pale horizon in 1946 Netherlands footage. — Searchlight and operator silhouetted against the ocean horizon.

A large shipboard searchlight fills the foreground while the young man stands partly obscured, with open water stretching behind him. — Large searchlight in foreground with operator partly hidden.

A glowing round searchlight sits beside the young man on the deck, with a second fixture, railing, and ocean horizon visible behind. — Lit shipboard searchlight beside a young man at sea.

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