Netherlands-1946: God Bless America Land That I Love

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationNetherlands
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Netherlands

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God Bless America Land That I Love — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a serene seascape from a moving vessel. A silhouetted figure in a dark hat gazes out over the deep blue ocean toward a distant mountainous coastline under a vast sky filled with soft white clouds. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and subtle scratches, characteristic of mid-century amateur recordings. The perspective suggests a passenger on a ship, with the horizon line shifting slightly across the frames, conveying a sense of peaceful travel and contemplation. This archival clip evokes nostalgia for post-war era voyages and the beauty of open water.

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: 123139987

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: 1946 8mm home-movie seascape suited for documentary or museum sequences needing postwar-era travel, ocean passage, or reflective voyage atmosphere.
Period detail: The small-gauge color film, soft exposure, and passenger viewpoint may show mid-1940s leisure or transit filming from a vessel near the Netherlands.
Home-movie behavior: An unseen amateur camera observes a hat-wearing passenger looking out across open water, preserving an unstaged moment of travel and watching the horizon.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark hat silhouette, ocean surface, distant mountainous shoreline, blue sky, white clouds, and black contact-sheet frame borders.
Film character: The clip has an 8mm home-movie texture with visible grain, color shift, soft focus, slight scratches, and handheld framing from a moving vessel.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a quiet travel insert, transition between voyage scenes, ocean cutaway, or reflective memory beat in a personal-history sequence.
Historical context: The view suggests civilian travel or sightseeing after World War II, but the frames do not identify the vessel, route, or specific coastline.
Research note: A person is visible in silhouette, so copyright, likeness, and contextual permissions should be reviewed separately before commercial or editorial use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1946 8mm Netherlands home movie, vintage ocean voyage, passenger on ship, distant coastline, and postwar travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other Netherlands or 1946 travel material, then with broader sea voyage and horizon footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 8mm Netherlands home-movie frame showing a silhouetted passenger hat against open water, distant mountainous coastline, clouds, and blue sky. — A dark hat silhouette sits low in frame as the camera looks over the sea toward a distant coast.

1946 8mm Netherlands travel footage with a silhouetted passenger facing the sea and a distant mountainous shoreline beneath clouds. — The passenger silhouette shifts higher against the horizon as the vessel looks toward distant land.

1946 Netherlands 8mm frame with a partial silhouetted passenger at lower left and a soft view of ocean, distant land, and clouds. — A partial figure remains at the lower edge while the camera holds on sea, coastline, and sky.

1946 8mm Netherlands seascape frame showing open water, a distant mountainous coastline, cloud-filled sky, grain, and vertical film scratch. — The final frame clears to a seascape with distant land below a bright cloud bank.

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