Paris France-1947: Cabin Motorboat Crossing the River With a Foaming Wake

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Year1947
Decade1940s
LocationParis, Ile-de-France, France
Duration4s
Price$149 USD
Collection1947 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1947 · Paris & Ile-de-France · Reel 9133c154 contains 26 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

River transport
Urban waterways
Boating
Everyday movement
Travel observation
Paris river life

Shot type: medium
Camera: pan · handheld · Elevated oblique side view
Setting: outdoor · Urban river with passing and partially visible background craft
Time and weather: Daytime · Undetermined · Undetermined
Lighting: Natural daylight with reflections on the water
People: 1 · At least one dark-clothed figure is visible beside the rear of the wheelhouse; facial features and age are indistinct.
Vehicles: Cabin motorboat · Partially visible background boats
Objects: Wheelhouse · Open stern · Canopy frame · Hanging fenders · Bow rail · Boat windows · Foaming wake
Colors: brown-gray · cream · charcoal · muted olive
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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The cabin motorboat crosses rightward with a white wake trailing left.
The camera follows the hull, wheelhouse and hanging fenders.
The vessel continues in profile as ripples spread behind it.
A dark figure is clearer beside the cabin as the bow approaches the right edge.

Cabin Motorboat Crossing the River With a Foaming Wake — Clip Details

Paris, France, circa 1947 home movie footage shows a cabin motorboat moving left to right across the Seine. Its pale hull, enclosed wheelhouse, open stern and hanging fenders remain visible as white water gathers beside the bow and trails behind. An elevated camera follows the vessel in one continuous shot, with rippling water filling most of the frame and indistinct moored craft along the upper edge.

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: 4s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800002860

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People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1947 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: Paris, Ile-de-France, France 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This circa 1947 Paris river passage serves documentary and museum briefs seeking a short view of everyday waterborne movement.
Period detail: The compact enclosed wheelhouse, open stern, narrow canopy frame and hanging fenders provide visible vessel details without establishing a make or exact construction date.
Home-movie behavior: The elevated visitor's viewpoint follows a passing craft, preserving an incidental river encounter with no evident posing.
What appears in frame: A pale hull carries a boxy wheelhouse, an open stern, a canopy frame, dark fenders and a standing figure above rippled water and white wake.
Film character: Visible grain, soft detail, subdued brown-gray rendition, slight instability and dark edges convey the texture of film recorded from projection.
Edit role: Use the clear rightward movement as a river transport insert or a transition between wider Paris views.
Historical context: The shot records a modest cabin vessel underway within the Seine sequence, without establishing whether its journey was commercial, official or recreational.
Research note: A person and a privately owned vessel may be represented; film copyright, likeness rights and property considerations are separate, and the faint hull lettering is unreadable.
Research search match: The clip answers searches for Paris Seine motorboats, circa 1947 river traffic and original small-gauge home movie transport footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's Palais Bourbon view and Seine fishing scenes, then with Paris circa 1947 river footage and comparable passing-vessel shots.

Still Frames From This Clip

The passing vessel is shown in profile with its wheelhouse, stern canopy frame and hanging fenders.

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A motorboat advances across the Seine in Paris, circa 1947, with a bright bow wave and a widening wake behind its stern. — A bow wave gathers along the near side as the camera follows the motorboat.
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The open stern and enclosed wheelhouse of a passing Seine motorboat remain visible in Paris home movie footage, circa 1947. — The boat continues rightward through rippled water, leaving white foam along its hull.
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A figure beside the wheelhouse rides a cabin motorboat across the Seine in Paris, circa 1947, as foam spreads beneath the bow. — A standing figure is clearest beside the cabin near the end of the passage.
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