Leyte Gulf Philippines-1944: A View Of A Dark Grassy Wooded Wilderness

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

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A View Of A Dark Grassy Wooded Wilderness — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1944, this vintage home movie captures a haunting view of a dark, grassy wilderness in Leyte Gulf, Philippines. The footage shows a desolate field bordered by dense, shadowy trees under a muted, overcast sky. A small, isolated structure sits in the distance, adding to the eerie, abandoned atmosphere. The image is marked by classic Super 8 film grain, vertical red scratches, and a soft, faded color palette, evoking a sense of historical isolation and quiet tension. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse into a forgotten landscape during wartime.

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: 123138280

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

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: 1940s 8mm footage of a quiet wooded field in Leyte Gulf, useful for wartime-era landscape cutaways, documentary transitions, or place-setting inserts.
Period detail: The frames may show a rural Philippine landscape in the 1940s, with a distant small structure, open grass, palms, and no visible modern infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, holding on a distant landscape rather than presenting a composed newsreel or official survey shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open grassland, a dark tree line, palm shapes, a small distant structure, overcast sky, heavy frame borders, and red film streaks.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, faded color, grain, gate edges, vertical red streaking, and slight exposure unevenness that place the material firmly in physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, a reflective transition, or a memory beat between more explicit wartime or travel footage.
Historical context: The view suggests rural terrain around Leyte Gulf during the documented 1944 period, but the frames themselves do not identify a specific event, unit, or landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or location sensitivities should be reviewed before reuse.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1940s 8mm Leyte Gulf landscape, Philippines home movie field, wartime rural cutaway, and vintage wooded wilderness footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1944 Leyte Gulf material, and then broader 1940s rural Philippines or wartime landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1944 Leyte Gulf 8mm frame showing a grassy field, distant tree line, and small structure beneath a muted sky. — A still rural field faces a dark tree line, with a small structure set back in the distance.

1944 Leyte Gulf home-movie frame with open grass, distant trees, a small structure, and red film streaking. — The camera holds on open grassland with trees and a small building-like form near the horizon.

1944 Leyte Gulf frame showing a grassy foreground, dark trees, palm silhouettes, and faded color from an 8mm source. — A low, shadowed tree line stretches across the frame beyond the open grass.

1944 Leyte Gulf 8mm still with open grass, palm-lined trees, and a small distant structure at the right. — The field continues toward a palm-lined horizon, with a small structure barely visible near the right side.

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