Leyte Gulf Philippines-1944: Battleship on Calm Waters near Mountainous Peninsula

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

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Battleship on Calm Waters near Mountainous Peninsula — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1944, this archival footage captures a naval scene in Leyte Gulf, Philippines. A large battleship floats on calm waters under an overcast sky, with a distant mountainous peninsula forming the backdrop. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—grainy texture, color fading, and vertical scratches—evoking a raw, historical wartime perspective. The camera remains steady, offering a quiet, observational view of military readiness during World War II.

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: 123138151

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.

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 documentary or museum requests for 1940s Pacific wartime naval footage showing a distant battleship in Leyte Gulf from an 8mm home-movie viewpoint.
Period detail: The 1944 metadata and visible warship profile may show a World War II naval presence, with a mountainous rural peninsula and open gulf waters in the background.
Home-movie behavior: The steady, distant framing has the value of a visitor or servicemember observation rather than staged coverage, recording a ship at anchor or moving slowly offshore.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large distant battleship, calm gulf water, low mountainous shoreline, overcast cloud cover, dark film frame edges, and light surface scratches.
Film character: The scan carries soft 8mm texture with muted color, visible grain, gate edges, slight blur, exposure variation, and vertical wear marks that support its archival home-movie character.
Edit role: Editors can use this as a short establishing cutaway, wartime memory beat, transition into naval context, or quiet insert between maps, testimony, and broader Pacific War material.
Historical context: The footage visually places a military vessel near a rural coastal landscape, suggesting naval activity in the Philippines without identifying the ship or action from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable markings are visible, but the military subject, copyright status, and any ship identification should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1944 Leyte Gulf 8mm footage, Philippines World War II battleship, Pacific naval home movie, and distant warship near peninsula.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1944 Leyte Gulf or Philippines footage, then broader Pacific War naval scenes and coastal establishing views.

Still Frames From This Clip

Distant battleship in Leyte Gulf, Philippines, with a mountainous shoreline and cloudy sky, seen through soft 1940s 8mm film texture. — A distant naval vessel sits offshore against a low mountainous peninsula.

A large warship appears offshore in Leyte Gulf, with blue-gray water, distant hills, cloud cover, and visible 8mm gate edges. — The ship remains distant on calm water beneath a cloudy sky.

A distant battleship is framed low on the water near a rural peninsula, with muted color, heavy clouds, and visible vertical film wear. — The vessel is seen from shore or another vessel at a long distance.

The warship remains offshore in Leyte Gulf, with a small blurred foreground shape, calm water, distant mountains, and worn 8mm film texture. — A small foreground blur crosses the water while the distant ship stays in view.

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