Leyte Gulf Philippines-1944: Man Sitting on Stump Among Palm Trees

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

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Man Sitting on Stump Among Palm Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1944, this vintage footage captures a tropical landscape along Leyte Gulf, Philippines. The clip opens with a view of palm trees and grassy terrain, rendered in the distinctive purple and pink color shifts of aged Super 8 film. A man in military-style clothing sits on a stump in a grassy field, appearing to read or write. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight motion blur, and vertical color streaks, characteristic of wartime home movie recordings. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse of daily life during World War II in the Pacific.

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: 123138276

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: Supports World War II-era Pacific home-movie requests needing tropical landscape cutaways and a quiet serviceman or traveler moment near Leyte Gulf.
Period detail: The visible clothing and 8mm home-movie style may show a 1940s wartime setting, with no identifiable landmarks beyond the palm-lined tropical shoreline noted in the metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged observational quality, moving from palms and grass to a seated man who appears to read or write alone in the field.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include palm trees, a pale water or shoreline band, grassy ground, dense tropical vegetation, a seated man, a stump, and aged film color streaks.
Film character: The footage carries strong 8mm archive texture, with soft focus, grain, uneven exposure, magenta and purple color shifts, and vertical dye or processing streaks.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief Pacific-theater establishing insert, a reflective cutaway, or a memory beat between wartime travel or daily-life scenes.
Historical context: The scene suggests a tropical wartime environment around Leyte Gulf, but the frames show only landscape and a solitary seated man rather than direct combat activity.
Research note: A person is visible and possible military styling may require likeness and context review, while copyright, location, and any institutional source rights should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s 8mm Philippines home movie, Leyte Gulf palm trees, Pacific wartime landscape, and man seated in tropical field.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then with other 1944 Leyte Gulf material, then with broader Pacific island landscape or serviceman downtime footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Palm-lined tropical landscape near Leyte Gulf, Philippines, seen in soft 1940s 8mm color footage. — Palm trees and vegetation line a pale shoreline or water band.

Palm trees and tropical growth near Leyte Gulf appear through aged 8mm color shifts and soft focus. — A tropical palm line appears across the upper frame.

A man in military-style clothing sits on a stump in a grassy Leyte Gulf field during 1940s 8mm home-movie footage. — A seated man pauses in a grassy tropical field.

A seated man in a tropical Leyte Gulf field appears to read or write, with palms and brush behind him in faded 8mm color. — The man looks down while seated in the grass near palms.

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