Japan-1952: Soldiers Operating Artillery Cannon in Training Exercise

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Soldiers Operating Artillery Cannon in Training Exercise — Clip Details

JAPAN-1952: Soldiers in olive drab uniforms and steel helmets operate a field artillery piece in a grassy, wooded area. The 8mm film footage captures a moment of military training or preparation, with one soldier adjusting the cannon while others stand nearby. The scene is shot through a natural frame, possibly a doorway, with foliage visible in the foreground. The image quality shows characteristic Super 8 film grain and color saturation of the era, offering authentic vintage military footage for historical or documentary use.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 125227383

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: 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Japan military-training requests needing real 8mm footage of soldiers working around field artillery for documentary, museum, or education edits.
Period detail: The olive drab uniforms, steel helmets, field cannon, and color 8mm stock support an early-1950s military-training context in Japan, as supplied by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the candid observer perspective, with soldiers shifting positions and one man reaching toward the artillery piece rather than posing for a formal camera setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include helmeted soldiers, an artillery cannon, tall grass, trees, foreground foliage, dark film-frame borders, and a wooded training area.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, warm color, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing that read as authentic physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert or cutaway for military preparation, postwar occupation-era atmosphere, training routines, or archival memory beats.
Historical context: The scene visually places uniformed men and field equipment in an outdoor training environment, but it should not be tied to a specific unit, battle, or event without outside research.
Research note: People and faces are visible, and the scene involves military activity; copyright, likeness, and any institutional-use questions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches such as 1952 Japan 8mm military training, soldiers operating artillery cannon, postwar Japan field exercise footage, and vintage home movie army drill.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Japan 1952 material, then with other 1950s military training, artillery, and uniformed-soldier scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 Japan 8mm frame showing soldiers in olive drab uniforms gathered around a field artillery piece in a wooded training area. — Soldiers cluster beside an artillery cannon in a grassy outdoor setting.

1952 Japan footage frame with several uniformed soldiers beside a field cannon, one holding papers or cloth near the right edge. — Uniformed men stand near the cannon as one soldier appears to handle an item at right.

1952 Japan 8mm frame showing a soldier reaching to adjust or touch a field artillery piece as other helmeted soldiers watch nearby. — One soldier reaches toward the artillery while others remain positioned around it.

1952 Japan archival frame with soldiers in helmets around a field cannon, framed by foliage and dark edges from the 8mm scan. — The artillery crew remains in place around the field gun in a grassy training area.

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