Netherlands-1946: Glacier In An Ocean

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationNetherlands
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Netherlands

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Glacier In An Ocean — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a distant view of a snow-covered landmass across a calm ocean, likely a glacier or ice-covered coast. The footage is framed by a dark window or porthole, with visible film grain, scratches, and dust typical of archival Super 8 footage. The muted color palette and hazy atmosphere evoke a sense of cold, remote exploration, possibly from a ship at sea. This authentic 1940s home movie offers a nostalgic glimpse of nature's grandeur, ideal 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: 123140068

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: 1940s 8mm home-movie footage suited to documentary requests for distant sea views, cold coastlines, shipboard observation, or atmospheric travel cutaways.
Period detail: The clip may show a 1946 home-movie view filmed from behind a dark window or porthole, with no visible people, vessels, signs, or identifiable landmarks in frame.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the quiet, observational shipboard perspective, holding on a remote pale coastline across open water rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open ocean, a hazy horizon, a pale snow-covered or cliff-like landmass, dark vertical window framing, muted sky, film dust, scratches, and soft focus.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries subdued color, visible grain, gate edges, dust, scratches, slight softness, and exposure shifts that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, sea-travel transition, reflective cutaway, or memory beat for remote coastline or cold-weather journeys.
Historical context: As visual evidence, the clip documents a mid-1940s amateur travel viewpoint across water, though the precise coastform should remain unidentified without reel notes.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any production-specific use still require standard review.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1940s 8mm ocean horizon, vintage home movie distant coastline, ship window sea view, cold coast archival footage, and 1946 travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Netherlands or 1946 travel material, then broader ocean, coastline, shipboard, and cold-landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 8mm home-movie frame showing a hazy distant pale coastline across ocean, seen through dark vertical framing. — A distant pale coast or ice-covered landmass appears beyond open water.

Hazy 1946 8mm view of ocean and a pale distant coast, with black frame edges and visible archival dust. — The camera holds on a remote coastline across calm water.

1940s 8mm frame with a distant pale landmass across blue water, shot through a dark window-like edge. — A broad pale strip of coast stretches along the horizon line.

Archival 1946 8mm sea view showing a low pale coastline in haze, bordered by dark vertical framing. — The final frame keeps the coastline low on the horizon behind open water.

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