Netherlands-1946: An Orange Cone Floating All By Its Lonesome Out In The Open

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationNetherlands
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Netherlands

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An Orange Cone Floating All By Its Lonesome Out In The Open — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a solitary orange buoy floating in open water, viewed through a dark frame as if from a ship's porthole. The cone-shaped buoy bobs gently on the waves under a muted sky, with a distant shoreline visible in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and a nostalgic, isolated mood. This archival clip offers a quiet, contemplative moment of maritime life in post-war Netherlands, perfect for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 123140066

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: 1946 Netherlands 8mm home-movie footage for editors needing a brief maritime cutaway, open-water insert, or quiet postwar-era travel detail.
Period detail: The frames show a small orange conical buoy, open sea, distant pale shoreline, and the dark edges of the film gate, with the 1946 date supplied by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged traveler viewpoint, watching a buoy and distant coast from a moving boat or shoreline vantage without people entering the scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a cone-shaped orange buoy, rippled blue water, muted sky, distant white shoreline or cliffs, dark frame bars, soft focus, and film dust.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate edges, and minor speckling that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short maritime insert, a passage-at-sea transition, or a quiet memory beat between broader travel or coastal sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually suggests postwar-era leisure or travel observation in the Netherlands, but the frames themselves show only water, buoy, sky, and distant shoreline.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or evident private property are visible, though copyright status and location identification should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s Netherlands 8mm buoy footage, vintage home movie open water, orange sea marker, and distant coastline travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1946 Netherlands coastal or boat footage, then with broader maritime markers and open-water themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Netherlands 8mm frame showing a small orange conical buoy on open water, seen through dark film-gate edges. — A solitary orange buoy floats on open water under a subdued sky.

1946 Netherlands 8mm frame with an orange sea marker centered on rippled water, framed by dark vertical gate edges. — The buoy sits alone against a low horizon and gray-blue water.

1946 Netherlands 8mm frame showing distant pale shoreline or cliffs beyond open water, with soft focus and visible film wear. — A pale distant shoreline appears across the water beneath a muted sky.

1946 Netherlands 8mm frame looking across open water toward a pale shoreline or cliff line under a gray-blue sky. — The view shifts from buoy to a distant pale coast across the water.

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