Leyte Gulf Philippines-1944: Wind Blowing On Palm Trees Right Before The Storm

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

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Wind Blowing On Palm Trees Right Before The Storm — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1944, this vintage home movie captures a tropical shoreline in Leyte Gulf, Philippines, with palm trees swaying in a strong wind just before a storm. The footage shows a dense line of coconut palms against a cloudy sky, with the water in the foreground. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: grainy texture, color shifts with purple and pink hues, and vertical scratches. This archival clip offers a rare, atmospheric glimpse of a tropical environment during wartime, evoking a sense of impending weather and historical nostalgia.

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: 123138269

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: Useful 1940s 8mm tropical shoreline footage for documentary inserts about wartime-era Philippines, severe weather, island environments, or archival travel memory.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-1940s home-movie view, with era clues mainly from the 8mm color stock, soft focus, and hand-scanned frame edges rather than built structures or clothing.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the observational home-movie gaze, holding on wind-tossed palms across the water without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a calm foreground waterline, dense tropical vegetation, tall coconut palms, cloudy pale sky, dark film borders, and color-stained frame edges.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm texture, visible grain, purple-pink color shift, vertical scratches, rounded frame corners, and slight contact-sheet misalignment.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a weather cutaway, tropical location insert, transition into a storm sequence, or quiet memory beat within a 1940s archive montage.
Historical context: The view gives environmental context for Leyte Gulf as a tropical shoreline, but the frames do not show military activity, vessels, buildings, or identifiable events.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and location/date attribution should still be checked against source records.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1940s 8mm Leyte Gulf shoreline, Philippines palm trees in wind, tropical storm home movie, and vintage island waterfront footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1944 Leyte Gulf material, then broader tropical shoreline, storm, and palm-tree archive footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1944 Leyte Gulf home-movie frame showing wind-blown coconut palms along a tropical shoreline with water in the foreground. — Tall palms and dense vegetation line the shore across a pale strip of water.

1944 Leyte Gulf 8mm frame with a row of coconut palms bending slightly in wind above a tropical waterfront. — A dense palm line stands against a muted sky as water fills the lower frame.

1944 Leyte Gulf home-movie frame showing tropical palms and thick vegetation across a waterfront, with visible film scratches and color shift. — The shoreline fills more of the frame, with palms silhouetted against the pale sky.

1944 Leyte Gulf 8mm frame of a palm-lined shoreline across water, showing grain, scratches, and pink-purple color shifts. — Wind-affected palms and heavy vegetation form a dark line above the water.

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