Leyte Gulf Philippines-1944: Sail Boat On The Water

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

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Sail Boat On The Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1944, this vintage footage captures a traditional sailboat navigating the deep blue waters of Leyte Gulf, Philippines. The small wooden vessel, with its single triangular sail, cuts through the waves under a cloudy sky, with distant landforms visible on the horizon. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—vibrant blue color grading, slight grain, and natural motion—evoking a sense of wartime travel and maritime life. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse into Pacific theater history, perfect for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 123138327

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: Useful for 1940s Pacific-region archive requests needing a brief maritime cutaway from Leyte Gulf, Philippines, for documentary, museum, education, or editorial context.
Period detail: The frames may show a small traditional sailing craft with a triangular sail on open water, with the 8mm color stock and metadata supporting a 1944 wartime-era home-movie source.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a traveler or servicemember filming from a distance, holding on a small boat moving across choppy water rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small sailboat, triangular tan sail, dark blue sea, pale cloudy sky, distant horizon landforms, film gate edges, and contact-sheet frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries saturated blue color, soft focus, handheld framing, grain, scratches, and uneven exposure that are consistent with scanned mid-century 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime insert, Pacific travel cutaway, transition between wartime locations, or quiet memory beat within a 1940s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents small-boat movement on Leyte Gulf waters, while any connection to specific military operations should be supported by outside research before use.
Research note: Tiny people appear aboard the boat, but faces are not identifiable; copyright, location context, and any likeness or cultural-use concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1944 8mm Leyte Gulf sailboat footage, Philippines home movie ocean scene, Pacific wartime travel cutaway, and traditional boat on open water.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1944 Leyte Gulf or Philippines footage, then broader Pacific maritime and small-boat home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1944 Leyte Gulf 8mm frame showing a distant small sailboat with a tan triangular sail crossing choppy blue water. — A small sailing craft moves across open water, seen from a distant handheld viewpoint.

1944 Leyte Gulf home-movie frame with a small sailing vessel on rough blue water and faint landforms at the horizon. — The sailboat remains centered against the broad sea and hazy horizon.

1944 Leyte Gulf 8mm frame, partly cropped in the contact sheet, showing a small sailboat below a pale sky and dark horizon. — A cropped frame shows the sailboat lower in view as the camera holds on the water.

1944 Leyte Gulf 8mm frame showing a distant small sailboat under a cloudy sky, with heavy contact-sheet borders visible. — The boat continues across the water within the visible 8mm frame border.

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