Netherlands-1946: Wooden Docks and Harbor

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationNetherlands
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Netherlands

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Wooden Docks and Harbor — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage footage captures a Dutch harbor scene with wooden docks extending into calm water. A long pier leads toward a sandy shoreline where a small building with a flag flies. In the background, brick buildings and green cylindrical structures line the waterfront, with people visible on the dock. The image shows classic Super 8 film grain, slight color fading, and a soft focus, evoking a nostalgic mid-20th century atmosphere. The scene is bathed in bright daylight under a clear sky, with a calm sea reflecting the structures. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse of post-war Dutch coastal life, perfect for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 123140602

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: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1940s Dutch harbor footage for documentary inserts, coastal infrastructure context, or postwar European waterfront atmosphere.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-1940s harbor details, including wooden pier construction, brick waterfront buildings, small utility structures, and simple dockside activity.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint from across the water, observing docks, shoreline buildings, and a few people moving on the pier without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, wooden piers, sandy shoreline, brick dock buildings, green cylindrical tanks, a small flag-topped structure, and distant figures.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, gate edges, and brief contact-sheet framing that preserve the physical-film character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a harbor establishing shot, travel-memory cutaway, coastal transition, or brief visual beat between postwar Netherlands sequences.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for Dutch waterfront infrastructure and everyday dockside movement, without enough detail to identify a specific harbor or event.
Research note: People and possible signage or branding are visible at a distance, so likeness, trademark, and location identification should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1946 Netherlands harbor 8mm, Dutch wooden pier home movie, postwar coastal docks, and vintage European waterfront footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Netherlands 1946 waterfront material, then broader 1940s European harbor and coastal travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Netherlands harbor view with a brick waterfront building, green cylindrical tanks, wooden dock supports, calm water, and distant people on the pier. — Brick dockside building and green tanks line a wooden waterfront pier.

1946 Netherlands coastal harbor view with a long wooden pier, sandy shore, low dunes or buildings, and a small structure with a flag under clear sky. — A wooden pier leads toward a small shoreline structure flying a flag.

Soft 8mm view of a Netherlands harbor shoreline in 1946, showing a wooden pier, sandy bank, small flag-topped structure, calm water, and low distant buildings. — The shoreline and small flag-topped building are seen beyond the wooden pier.

1946 Netherlands harbor shoreline with a wooden pier, small sign, sandy beach, calm water, low buildings, and a compact flag-topped structure in soft focus. — A pier and small sign frame the sandy waterfront and flag-topped structure.

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