Leyte Gulf Philippines-1944: A Boat With A Heavy Load Of Boxes Or Lobster Traps

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

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A Boat With A Heavy Load Of Boxes Or Lobster Traps — Clip Details

LEYTE GULF PHILIPPINES-1944: A vintage 8mm film clip captures a military-style boat navigating the deep blue waters of Leyte Gulf, carrying a heavy load of boxes or lobster traps. The vessel cuts through the ocean, leaving a white wake behind, with the camera maintaining a steady, high-angle view. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, characteristic of wartime home movies. The final frames shift to a distant shoreline under a cloudy sky, offering a panoramic view of the Philippine landscape. This authentic archival footage provides a rare glimpse into naval logistics and daily life 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: 123138185

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 1940s Pacific wartime-era archive requests needing brief coastal water travel, small craft, or shoreline atmosphere for documentary inserts.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage may show a loaded small boat on Leyte Gulf waters in 1944, with no readable markings or identifiable personnel visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a private-observer viewpoint from above or offshore, lingering on a passing boat and then the distant coast rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include deep blue water, a loaded boat, white wake, cloudy sky, distant shoreline, low hills, film borders, and dust specks.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm grain, soft focus, saturated blue color, flicker, vertical film marks, and slight handheld instability as part of its archival texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a short cutaway, transition, or atmospheric establishing beat for sea travel, island coastline, or wartime home-movie context.
Historical context: The imagery gives a coastal maritime view from the Philippines during the 1940s, but the frames do not independently identify a mission or specific vessel type.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable property identifiers are visible, though copyright status and any location or military-context claims still require separate review.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1940s 8mm Leyte Gulf boat footage, Philippines shoreline home movie, Pacific ocean wake, and wartime coastal travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Leyte Gulf 1944 material, then broader 1940s Philippines water, boats, and shoreline footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1944 Leyte Gulf 8mm frame showing a small loaded boat crossing deep blue water and leaving a bright wake. — A loaded boat moves through blue water, seen from a high angle.

Leyte Gulf frame from 1944 showing the loaded boat farther from camera, surrounded by rippled blue water and wake. — The boat continues across open water with a trailing white wake.

1944 Leyte Gulf 8mm frame showing a distant Philippine shoreline, low hills, and layered clouds above calm water. — A distant shoreline sits below a broad, cloudy sky.

Leyte Gulf frame from 1944 showing clouds, distant coastal land, and dark blue water with visible film dust. — Clouds hang over the distant coast across the water.

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