Leyte Gulf Philippines-1944: Men Roaming The Old Days

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

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Men Roaming The Old Days — Clip Details

LEYTE GULF PHILIPPINES-1944: This vintage 8mm home movie footage captures a bustling street scene in the Philippines during World War II. Men in period military and civilian attire walk along a dirt road lined with simple buildings and utility poles. Early military vehicles and carts are parked and moving through the town, with a cloudy sky overhead. The film exhibits the characteristic grain, color fading, and slight distortion of 1940s Super 8 footage, offering a rare glimpse into daily life in a wartime provisional capital.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123138209

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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: 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

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 1940s wartime Philippines documentary inserts needing street-level home-movie views of men, vehicles, carts, and town traffic.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-1940s street life through military-style clothing, older motor vehicles, carts, simple buildings, and overhead utility poles.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged street observation, with people walking, vehicles paused or passing, and the camera watching from a moving or handheld position.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include men on a road, vintage cars or military vehicles, carts, low buildings, utility poles, cloudy sky, and a typed title card.
Film character: The scan has soft focus, heavy grain, purple color shift, gate edges, and handheld 8mm instability that place the material clearly within a physical home-movie record.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, wartime street cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into Philippine civilian and military presence.
Historical context: The frames suggest a busy town road in Leyte Gulf during the stated 1944 period, but the images alone do not identify a specific street, unit, or event.
Research note: People and possible military presence are visible, so copyright, likeness, and contextual use should be reviewed separately before publication.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1944 Leyte Gulf Philippines 8mm street scene, wartime Philippine town road, men walking with vintage vehicles, and home movie traffic.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Leyte Gulf or 1944 Philippines clips, then broader wartime street-life and transport scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A typed title card reads Tacloban Provisional Capital, supporting the clip metadata for Leyte Gulf, Philippines. — Title card with typed location text for Tacloban as provisional capital.

Wartime-era Leyte Gulf street view with men walking beside older vehicles, carts, low buildings, and utility poles under a cloudy sky. — Men and vehicles share a town street lined with buildings and utility poles.

1940s Leyte Gulf street scene with several men walking near parked vehicles, a cart, simple buildings, and utility poles. — Pedestrians move along the road near parked vehicles and roadside buildings.

Leyte Gulf street view showing a foreground vehicle or cart, men in the road, roadside structures, utility poles, and cloudy sky. — A foreground vehicle or cart frames men and buildings farther along the town road.

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