Leyte Gulf Philippines-1944: People Who Built A Creative Boat For Survival

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

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People Who Built A Creative Boat For Survival — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1944, this vintage footage captures a traditional outrigger canoe navigating the waters of Leyte Gulf, Philippines. The deep blue ocean contrasts with the wooden boat and its occupants, who paddle with focused determination. The grainy, slightly faded quality of the Super 8 home movie evokes a sense of historical authenticity and wartime resilience. The clip offers a rare glimpse into local maritime life during a pivotal era, with the camera maintaining a steady, observational perspective from a distance. This archival material is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, and nostalgic content exploring Pacific Island culture and survival 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: 123138301

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s Pacific home-movie requests needing a brief maritime cutaway of people traveling by small outrigger boat in Leyte Gulf.
Period detail: The frame may show wartime-era local water transport, with a narrow wooden outrigger canoe and hand paddling visible from a distant shore or vessel viewpoint.
Home-movie behavior: The value is observational and unstaged, watching the canoe and occupants move across open water without posed action or directed performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include deep blue water, a small outrigger canoe, several seated occupants, long lateral floats, paddles, and dark contact-sheet borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has saturated blue color, heavy grain, soft focus, gate edges, and slight exposure variation that read as original physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, maritime transition, survival-themed cutaway, or memory beat within a Pacific wartime or local transport sequence.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for small-boat movement on Philippine waters, while any link to specific wartime events should be supported by outside research.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed even though no logos, brands, private property, or audible music are indicated.
Research search match: Research matches include 1940s Leyte Gulf home movie, Philippine outrigger canoe footage, 8mm Pacific maritime travel, and small boat paddling archive.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then with 1944 Leyte Gulf or Philippines footage, then with Pacific island boat travel and survival themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A small outrigger canoe with several occupants moves across blue water in Leyte Gulf, Philippines, in 1944 home-movie footage. — Distant view of a small outrigger canoe carrying people across blue water.

The canoe continues across Leyte Gulf water while a partial observer's head appears along the right edge of the frame. — Canoe seen from a distance, with an onlooker partly visible at the frame edge.

A distant outrigger canoe with several people aboard crosses rippled blue water in the 1944 Leyte Gulf home-movie clip. — The small boat remains low in the water as occupants paddle across the gulf.

A closer overhead angle shows the outrigger canoe, multiple occupants, long supports, and paddles on blue water in Leyte Gulf. — Closer view of the outrigger boat structure and people aboard on open water.

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