Alaska-1946: Dark House and Overgrown Field

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationAlaska, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Alaska

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Dark House and Overgrown Field — Clip Details

ALASKA-1946: A grainy 8mm home movie captures a dark house at night, its roofline and picket fence silhouetted against a purple-tinged sky. The footage transitions to daytime, revealing overgrown grasses and tangled vegetation in a close-up, all rendered in the characteristic grain and color shift of vintage Super 8 film. This archival clip evokes a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere of mid-20th century domestic life in Alaska.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124549644

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 1178 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: 2
Reel-level year note: 1946
Reel-level location note: alaska
Date: 1946 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Alaska, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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: Useful for 1940s Alaska home-movie requests needing a brief domestic exterior, night-to-day nature insert, or quiet establishing cutaway.
Period detail: The dark roofline, picket fence, and small outbuilding may show mid-20th-century domestic surroundings, with the Alaska 1946 date supported by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, lingering on a dim house exterior before shifting to nearby grass and brush.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark house roofline, fence pickets, window area, purple sky, snow or pale ground, and close-up tangled grasses.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows heavy grain, soft focus, exposure shifts, and purple color drift that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a moody domestic insert, a memory beat, or a transition from nighttime exterior to daytime vegetation.
Historical context: The clip offers a small view of rural or residential surroundings in Alaska without enough detail to identify a specific property or landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property-related permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1946 Alaska 8mm home movie, dark house and fence at night, vintage domestic exterior, or overgrown grasses cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Alaska 1946 material, then broader 1940s home exteriors or vegetation inserts.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Alaska 8mm frame showing a dim house exterior with roofline, fence, and pale ground in low light. — Dark house exterior and fence seen in low light.

Low-light 8mm view of an Alaska house exterior, with roof eaves and fence barely visible against the sky. — Roof eaves and fence line in a dark exterior view.

1946 Alaska home-movie frame with a shadowed building, sloped roof, fence pickets, and a small window or door shape. — Shadowed building exterior with roof and fence details.

Daylight 8mm close-up from Alaska showing tangled grasses, stems, and brush with strong grain and color shift. — Tangled grasses and brush in a daytime close-up.

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