Netherlands-1946: Homes With A Beautiful Blue River Vintage Video Or Homemade

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationNetherlands
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Netherlands

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Homes With A Beautiful Blue River Vintage Video Or Homemade — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil Dutch canal scene. A narrow waterway with deep blue waters winds through a rural village, flanked by traditional thatched-roof homes and grassy banks. In the distance, a tall industrial chimney rises against the pale sky, hinting at early postwar development. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and subtle color shifts typical of 1940s home movies. A small boat drifts along the canal in later frames, adding gentle movement to the peaceful landscape. This archival clip offers authentic 1940s Dutch countryside life, perfect for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-accurate visuals.

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: 123140387

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports requests for 1940s Dutch rural canal or riverside village footage for documentary, museum, education, or period-setting editorial use.
Period detail: The thatched roofs, open grassy banks, small waterside buildings, and distant chimney may show a mid-1940s Netherlands village landscape.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged home-movie view from across or along the water, observing a quiet settlement without performers or posed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, grassy banks, thatched-roof homes, small outbuildings, a distant chimney, bare trees, pale sky, and a small boat in later frames.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, rounded frame edges, and handheld framing typical of physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a calm establishing insert, rural transition, canal cutaway, or memory beat in a postwar Netherlands sequence.
Historical context: The view suggests everyday waterside settlement rather than a staged event, with rural homes beside a working waterway and a distant industrial stack.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property concerns should still be checked by the buyer.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1946 Netherlands 8mm canal village, Dutch thatched houses by river, postwar rural waterway home movie, and vintage blue river footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with other 1946 Netherlands footage, then with rural canal, village waterside, postwar Europe, or quiet landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Netherlands home-movie frame showing a blue canal or river, grassy bank, thatched houses, and a distant chimney. — A quiet waterside village seen across blue water with low houses and a tall chimney in the distance.

1946 Netherlands frame with a bright sky, blue canal or river, grassy near bank, distant houses, and a tall chimney. — The waterway curves past a small settlement, with exposure blooming across the upper part of the frame.

1946 Netherlands home-movie frame showing rippled blue water, thatched homes, bare trees, and a tall chimney beyond the bank. — Riverside houses sit along the far bank, with rippled water filling the foreground.

1946 Netherlands frame showing a blue waterway, low waterside houses, bare trees, a tall chimney, and a small boat at right. — A small boat appears near the right bank as the village line continues along the water.

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