Japan-1952: Military Men Riding In A Boat In Front Of A White House

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Military Men Riding In A Boat In Front Of A White House — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures Japanese military men in uniform riding in a boat on calm water, with a white house visible in the background. The footage shows soldiers in helmets seated in a military transport boat, with a civilian in a light-colored shirt standing at the stern. The scene is framed through a window or doorway, with natural light illuminating the water and surrounding greenery. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The clip offers authentic wartime or post-war Japanese military life footage for historical documentaries, editorial content, or retro-themed projects.

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: 125226965

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: 1952 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: Japan 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: 1950s Japan home-movie footage useful for establishing a quiet residential or institutional exterior in documentary, education, or editorial sequences.
Period detail: The frames show a white building, outdoor stairs, metal railings, grassy slope, and flowering trees, with period detail limited by distance and soft 8mm resolution.
Home-movie behavior: The view feels like a passing home-movie observation from a nearby path or vehicle, lingering briefly on the building and spring trees without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white building, dark windows or doors, exterior steps, metal handrails, a green lawn, flowering tree branches, and heavy frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, uneven exposure, saturated greens, slight blur, and contact-sheet frame edges that preserve the texture of physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief exterior cutaway, location transition, or reflective memory beat before or after footage from the same reel.
Historical context: The scene may show a Japanese residential or small institutional exterior in 1952, but the sampled frames do not visually confirm military activity or boating.
Research note: People are flagged in clip metadata and military subject matter is noted, so likeness and editorial sensitivity review may be needed even though no faces are clear in these stills.
Research search match: Search matches include 1952 Japan 8mm home movie exterior, white building with flowering trees, vintage Japanese residential exterior, and postwar Japan home movie cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Japan 1952 exteriors, and then broader 1950s home-movie scenes of buildings, trees, water, or military context.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 Japan 8mm frame showing a white building, dark openings, flowering trees, exterior steps, and a green slope. — White exterior building and flowering tree seen from a handheld 8mm viewpoint.

A soft 8mm view in Japan, 1952, showing a white building partly covered by flowering branches and a stair rail. — Flowering branches frame a white building and stair rail on a grassy slope.

1952 Japan home-movie still with a flowering tree, white exterior wall, dark opening, stairs, railings, and lawn. — Tree blossoms and a white building exterior fill the frame beside outdoor steps.

A 1952 Japan 8mm frame of a white building seen through trees, with exterior railings, stairs, and a sloped green lawn. — Trees partially obscure a white exterior building and stair railings.

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