Leyte Gulf Philippines-1944: Military Aircraft over Beachhead at Leyte

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Year1944
Decade1940s
LocationLeyte Gulf, Philippines
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1944 Philippines

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Military Aircraft over Beachhead at Leyte — Clip Details

LEYTE GULF PHILIPPINES-1944: This vintage 8mm home movie captures a historic wartime scene with a small boat navigating calm waters under an overcast sky. A military aircraft flies low across the frame, its silhouette visible against the cloudy backdrop. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, scratches, and a muted sepia tone, characteristic of 1940s archival home movies. The title card 'BEACHHEAD - LEYTE' confirms the location and context of the D-Day invasion operations in the Philippines during World War II. The shot is static, offering a rare, authentic glimpse of naval and air activity during the Leyte Gulf campaign.

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: 123138111

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$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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1944 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: Leyte Gulf, Philippines 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: Supports 1940s World War II editorial requests needing brief 8mm footage of Leyte Gulf shoreline waters with a low-flying aircraft and small boat.
Period detail: The title card reading "BEACHHEAD - LEYTE" and the muted 8mm look support a wartime Philippine setting, with the aircraft and boat visible over open water.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observer's static home-movie viewpoint, watching distant air and water activity rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a title card, cloudy sky, low horizon, calm water, small boat, distant aircraft silhouette, dark frame edges and film specks.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, subdued sepia-gray exposure, gate edges, dust, scratches and uneven density that give the footage clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wartime insert, location identifier, transition into Leyte material, or cutaway for air-and-sea activity.
Historical context: Metadata places the scene at Leyte Gulf in 1944, while the frames themselves show a titled beachhead reference followed by distant aircraft and boat movement over water.
Research note: No people, faces, logos or private property are visible, but military context and historical identification should still be checked separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1940s Leyte Gulf 8mm footage, Beachhead Leyte title card, World War II Philippines home movie, and aircraft over water with boat.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring reel shots, then other Leyte Gulf 1944 material, and then broader World War II Pacific naval or beachhead footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1940s 8mm title card for the Leyte beachhead sequence, with the words BEACHHEAD - LEYTE centered in a darkened frame. — Title card identifies the sequence as "BEACHHEAD - LEYTE."

Leyte Gulf view with a small boat near the lower right and a distant aircraft silhouette crossing an overcast sky. — A small boat sits low in frame as an aircraft passes over the water.

Wartime Leyte Gulf footage shows a small boat along the lower edge and a faint aircraft silhouette in the cloudy sky. — The aircraft remains faintly visible above the horizon while the boat crosses the lower frame.

Distant aircraft crosses the overcast Leyte Gulf sky while part of a small boat appears along the bottom edge. — A low aircraft silhouette passes above the water, with the boat partly cropped below.

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