Japan-1952: Military Tent In Jungle

Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Military Tent In Jungle — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage footage captures a military camouflage net tent in a remote jungle setting in Japan. The weathered netting, patterned with green and brown foliage, drapes over a low structure on a grassy hillside. A bare tree stands in the mid-ground, with distant mountains visible under an overcast sky. The image shows natural film grain and slight motion blur, characteristic of home movie footage from the era. This archival clip offers a glimpse into mid-century military life in a tropical environment.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125227299

Rights & Clearance

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: 1952 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Japan Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Japan archive requests needing a brief military field-camp cutaway, camouflage detail, or remote landscape insert for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage may show a mid-century military camouflage net or tent form, with low netting, rough grass, a bare tree, utility poles, and distant hills visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational home-movie viewpoint, holding on the tent from a nearby hillside rather than staging activity or formal military action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a camouflage net-covered low structure, grassy foreground, bare tree, utility poles, dark earth, hazy mountains, pale sky, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The scan carries soft 8mm grain, slight blur, muted color, uneven exposure, gate edges, and small dust marks that support its physical home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, military-camp cutaway, transition between travel scenes, or quiet memory beat for postwar-era Japan material.
Historical context: The scene visually suggests a temporary field or training setting in rural Japan, but the frames do not identify the unit, site, event, or exact purpose.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable markings are visible, but military subject matter and any underlying copyright or property context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Natural matches include 1952 Japan 8mm military tent, camouflage net in rural Japan, home movie army camp cutaway, and 1950s field shelter footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1952 Japan material, then broader 1950s military camp, camouflage, and remote landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 Japan 8mm frame showing a low camouflage net tent in grass, with a bare tree, poles, pale sky, and distant mountains. — A camouflage net-covered tent sits in grass with a bare tree and hills behind it.

1952 Japan 8mm frame of a camouflaged low tent or shelter on a grassy slope, with sparse trees, poles, and mountains beyond. — The camouflaged shelter remains centered against grass, utility poles, and distant mountains.

1952 Japan 8mm frame showing the left side of a camouflage net shelter, grassy ground, a bare tree, poles, and hazy hills. — A slightly lower frame shows more foreground grass and dark earth near the netted shelter.

1952 Japan 8mm frame holding on a camouflage net tent in grass, with a bare tree, utility poles, muted sky, and mountain ridge. — The final frame holds on the camouflaged tent with rural hills and a pale sky in the background.

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