Alaska-1946: Quiet Street with Houses and Bare Trees

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

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Quiet Street with Houses and Bare Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a quiet residential street in Alaska. The view, framed by dark tree trunks, shows a row of modest houses with white siding and gabled roofs, their windows reflecting the soft light of a late afternoon. Bare trees line the street, their branches silhouetted against the sky, while a quiet road stretches into the distance. The footage has a distinct purple-blue color cast and film grain, characteristic of mid-century home movies. This archival clip evokes a sense of calm, everyday life in a 1940s American neighborhood.

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: 124550850

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s archival requests needing a quiet Alaska residential street cutaway, neighborhood establishing shot, or understated home-front atmosphere.
Period detail: The modest gabled houses, bare roadside trees, open lawns, and quiet paved street may show mid-1940s residential development as seen in home-movie footage.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from a fixed, slightly obscured vantage point, giving the scene the casual observational feel of a family film rather than a staged record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tree trunks, bare branches, a quiet street, sidewalks, open lawns, white-sided houses, gabled roofs, and dark window openings.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, a purple-blue color cast, and slight handheld instability that mark it as physical mid-century home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, reflective transition, neighborhood cutaway, or memory beat within a 1940s Alaska sequence.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for everyday residential surroundings in Alaska in 1946 without showing people, vehicles, storefronts, or identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but visible houses and streets still warrant normal copyright, property, and location-identification review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 Alaska 8mm residential street footage, 1940s neighborhood home movie, empty tree-lined street, and vintage houses exterior cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Alaska 1946 exteriors, then broader 1940s residential street and neighborhood home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Alaska home-movie frame showing an empty residential street, lawns, bare trees, and white-sided houses partly obscured by dark trunks. — Empty residential street with bare trees and white houses viewed through dark foreground trunks.

1946 Alaska residential street view with bare trees, shadowed trunks, lawns, and white houses set back from the road. — Modest houses and a quiet street appear beyond dark tree trunks and winter-bare branches.

A 1946 Alaska home-movie view of a still residential block, with an empty road, sidewalks, lawns, and houses behind leafless trees. — Empty residential block with sidewalks, lawns, and houses behind leafless roadside trees.

Final 1946 Alaska frame showing a quiet street and white houses partially blocked by dark vertical and horizontal foreground edges. — Quiet residential street and houses partially hidden by dark foreground framing.

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