Netherlands-1946: Windmill Standing Alone in Green Field

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationNetherlands
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Netherlands

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Windmill Standing Alone in Green Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage footage captures a classic Dutch windmill standing alone in a vast green field under a pale blue sky. The image, slightly out of focus and tinged with blue, shows the windmill as a distant silhouette against the horizon. The scene is quiet and still, with no visible movement, evoking a sense of rural nostalgia. The film exhibits natural grain and age marks, characteristic of home movie footage from the post-war era. This archival clip offers a serene glimpse into mid-20th century Dutch countryside life.

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: 123140542

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: Useful for 1940s Netherlands countryside requests needing a quiet rural windmill cutaway or postwar European landscape insert.
Period detail: The distant windmill, open flat field and soft 8mm color may show rural Dutch scenery recorded from a home-movie viewpoint in 1946.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged travel or family-film perspective, holding on a distant landmark across open land without visible people or directed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a windmill on the horizon, flat green fields, pale blue sky, distant tree line, dark film borders and slight frame jitter.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, blue color bias, rounded frame edges, grain, dust marks and mild exposure variation that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief establishing insert, pastoral transition, rural memory beat or visual bridge for Dutch countryside material.
Historical context: The view presents a traditional windmill in a broad agricultural landscape, offering visual context for mid-20th-century rural Netherlands without showing social activity.
Research note: No people, logos or readable marks are visible, but copyright and any location or property considerations should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Search phrases might include 1946 Netherlands 8mm windmill, Dutch countryside home movie, rural field windmill, and postwar Europe landscape cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Netherlands footage, then broader Dutch rural landscape or windmill scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Netherlands 8mm frame showing a distant windmill on the horizon beyond a flat green field and pale blue sky. — A windmill stands far across open Dutch countryside, framed by soft 8mm edges.

Distant Dutch windmill sits near the horizon in a soft, blue-tinted 8mm home-movie frame from 1946. — The windmill remains centered in a quiet rural field view.

1946 Netherlands frame with a soft-focus windmill beyond open farmland, visible grain, dust marks and rounded 8mm frame edges. — Film texture and softness are visible as the camera holds on the windmill.

A distant windmill in the Netherlands appears across flat countryside in a blue-tinted 1946 8mm home-movie frame. — The final frame keeps the windmill small against the open field and sky.

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