Netherlands-1946: People Walking Near A River In The Middle Of A City

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationNetherlands
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Netherlands

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People Walking Near A River In The Middle Of A City — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage footage captures a quiet street scene in a Dutch city, likely post-war. A wide cobblestone quay runs alongside a calm river, with traditional Dutch buildings featuring gabled roofs and large windows lining the waterfront. Several people walk along the promenade, dressed in period clothing, while a classic bus is parked nearby. The image has a soft, slightly faded quality with natural color tones and visible film grain, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century urban life in the Netherlands.

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: 123140402

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: Useful for 1940s Netherlands city-life requests needing a short archival riverfront street scene for documentary, museum, education, or period urban context.
Period detail: The quay, gabled waterfront buildings, period clothing, sparse traffic, and parked bus may show postwar Dutch urban life in the mid-1940s.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor viewpoint, observing pedestrians crossing an open waterfront promenade rather than focusing on posed subjects.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a riverside quay, calm water, gabled buildings, shopfronts, pedestrians, bollards or posts, and a bus at the street edge.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, mild exposure variation, and slight handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, city transition, waterfront cutaway, or quiet memory beat in a Netherlands or postwar Europe sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows everyday movement along a Dutch waterfront with pedestrians and public transport visible, without enough evidence to identify a specific city or landmark.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed, while no clear logos or private interiors are apparent from these frames.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 Netherlands 8mm city street footage, Dutch river quay home movie, postwar European waterfront, and pedestrians near historic buildings.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Netherlands 1946 city material, then with broader European riverfront and postwar street-life scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Netherlands 8mm frame showing a broad riverfront quay, gabled urban buildings, small pedestrian groups, and a bus at the right edge. — Pedestrians move along a quiet Dutch waterfront lined with gabled buildings.

1946 Netherlands waterfront view with historic-looking gabled facades, pedestrians on the open quay, and a bus partly visible at the right. — A sparse group of people stands and walks beside the riverfront street.

1946 Netherlands 8mm frame centered on gabled waterfront buildings, shopfronts, a broad quay, and distant pedestrians near the river. — The camera holds on the waterfront facades and open promenade.

1946 Netherlands riverfront scene with water in the foreground, gabled buildings behind the quay, pedestrians, posts, and a partial boat-like form at left. — Water reflects the quay as pedestrians pass in front of Dutch waterfront buildings.

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