Netherlands-1946: Riverside Village With Brown Houses And Leiden Sign

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationNetherlands
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Netherlands

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Riverside Village With Brown Houses And Leiden Sign — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage footage captures a tranquil Dutch riverside village. The camera glides along a calm waterway, revealing small brown houses with thatched roofs lining the banks. A prominent building displays a large white sign reading 'LEIDEN', confirming the location. The scene is bathed in soft, muted light, with a hazy sky and subtle film grain enhancing its nostalgic, archival quality. The peaceful atmosphere and historic architecture evoke a sense of quiet rural life in post-war Netherlands.

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: 123140391

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: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 requests needing 1940s Dutch home-movie views of riverside settlement, travel movement, or postwar European town atmosphere.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-1940s Dutch waterside buildings, thatched roofs, simple boats, bare trees, and a large Leiden sign on a brick facade.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels like an unstaged visitor or traveler filming from across the water and then noticing the location sign.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a calm waterway, low brown houses, thatched roofs, grassy banks, small boats, bare trees, brick facades, and a Leiden sign.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, muted color, visible grain, gate edges, and slight handheld instability consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, geographic confirmation shot, travel transition, or quiet memory beat for Dutch material.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for everyday waterside architecture and travel observation in the Netherlands without showing identifiable people.
Research note: The Leiden sign and exterior buildings may require identification review; copyright, trademark, and property considerations should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 Netherlands 8mm footage, Leiden sign, Dutch riverside village, thatched houses, waterway travel, and postwar home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other Netherlands or Leiden 1946 footage, then with broader Dutch waterways and village scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Netherlands 8mm frame showing a calm waterway with low riverside houses, bare trees, and a distant vertical chimney or pole. — Riverside houses line a calm Dutch waterway.

1946 Netherlands 8mm frame with brown riverside houses, a grassy bank, bare trees, and water curving along the village edge. — Houses and trees sit along the bend of the waterway.

1946 Netherlands 8mm frame showing a waterside village with thatched roofs, bare trees, grassy foreground, and water at left. — Thatched-roof buildings stand along the riverside bank.

1946 Netherlands 8mm frame showing a brick facade with upper windows and a large white sign reading LEIDEN. — A large LEIDEN sign identifies the location on a brick building.

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