Leyte Gulf Philippines-1944: A Sailing Vessel Navigates Rough Waters

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

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A Sailing Vessel Navigates Rough Waters — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1944, this archival footage captures a traditional sailing vessel navigating the rough, deep blue waters of Leyte Gulf, Philippines. The small boat, with its large triangular sail, cuts through the waves under a bright daytime sky, with distant landforms visible on the horizon. The film exhibits natural grain and color shifts typical of vintage home movies, offering a rare glimpse of maritime life during World War II. This authentic, unscripted moment provides historical context and visual texture for documentaries, editorial content, and nostalgic storytelling.

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: 123138325

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: 1940s 8mm maritime footage from Leyte Gulf suited for documentary inserts about wartime-era travel, coastal life, or small-boat movement at sea.
Period detail: The triangular sail, small open hull, distant shoreline, and Kodachrome-like 8mm color may show mid-1940s coastal transport or fishing activity in the Philippines.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational home-movie feel, watching a small crewed sailing boat pass through rough water from a nearby vessel or shoreline vantage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small sailboat, triangular tan sail, dark blue choppy sea, distant landforms, bright sky, film borders, and tiny figures aboard.
Film character: The scan carries saturated blue color, soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, slight exposure shifts, and handheld framing typical of wartime-era 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief maritime cutaway, establishing insert, travel transition, or atmospheric memory beat for Philippine coastal waters.
Historical context: The footage visually situates small-scale sailing craft in Leyte Gulf during the 1940s without itself proving a military action or named event.
Research note: People appear only as distant figures, but likeness, copyright, and location-context review should remain separate from any assumed public-domain status.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1940s 8mm Leyte Gulf sailboat, Philippine sailing vessel home movie, rough sea coastal transport, and World War II era maritime footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1944 Leyte Gulf material, then broader Philippine maritime or wartime-era coastal travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1944 Leyte Gulf 8mm frame showing a small crewed sailing vessel with a triangular sail on choppy blue sea. — A small sailing vessel moves across rough water with distant land faintly visible.

Small sailing craft in Leyte Gulf, Philippines, seen in a grainy 1944 8mm frame with distant land on the horizon. — The sailboat rides through dark blue chop beneath a pale horizon.

A distant crewed sailing vessel continues across rough Leyte Gulf water in saturated 8mm color. — The boat’s tan sail tilts as it moves through the waves.

Final 1944 Leyte Gulf frame showing the small sailboat farther off against choppy sea and a faint shoreline. — The sailboat recedes across the blue water with low landforms in the distance.

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