Aden Yemen-1946: View Of Aden Harbor With Hills In The Background

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Year1946
Decade1940s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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View Of Aden Harbor With Hills In The Background — Clip Details

ADEN YEMEN-1946: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a serene view of Aden Harbor from a moving vessel. The clip opens with a title card from a Royal Indian Marine survey, then transitions to a sun-drenched coastal landscape. Blue water stretches toward a distant shoreline dotted with buildings and hills under a bright sky with scattered clouds. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight color fading, and natural camera movement, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-20th century Aden, Yemen.

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: 124753919

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: 1946 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: Not recorded Unidentified (Insufficient evidence for a responsible conclusion.)
Location evidence: No location is recorded for this clip.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1940s archival requests for Aden Harbor establishing views, maritime travel sequences, documentary geography, or colonial-era port context without visible people.
Period detail: The opening card references Aden Harbor and a Royal Indian Marine survey, while the harbor views show low shoreline buildings, hills, open water, and small vessels in a mid-century home-movie record.
Home-movie behavior: The camera appears to observe the harbor from a moving vessel, giving the scene a visitor-shot, unstaged travel perspective rather than a formal scenic composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a printed harbor title card, blue harbor water, a distant shoreline, low buildings, hills, small boats, scattered clouds, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, blue-biased exposure, frame jitter, and contact-sheet edge shadows that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, maritime transition, travel-memory beat, or visual bridge into a sequence about Aden, harbor movement, or postwar-era port geography.
Historical context: The footage visually situates Aden as a coastal harbor with vessels, shoreline settlement, and hills, but the frames do not identify specific landmarks or events beyond the title-card reference.
Research note: No people, faces, brands, or obvious private interiors are visible, but copyright, archive source rights, and any location or vessel identification should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1940s Aden Harbor 8mm footage, Yemen port home movie, vintage harbor view from vessel, and Royal Indian Marine survey title card.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other Aden or Yemen material from 1946, then with broader harbor, sea travel, and mid-century coastal footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Soft 8mm frame of a printed Aden Harbor title card, with smaller survey text blurred and dark frame borders visible. — Aden Harbor title card opens the clip in soft-focus 8mm footage.

Aden Harbor view from the water, with distant shore buildings, low hills, scattered clouds, and a small vessel near the right edge. — Distant shoreline and vessel across blue harbor water.

Wide 8mm harbor view showing blue water, distant Aden shoreline, low hills, small boats, and bright clouds under a clear sky. — Wide harbor view with hills and shoreline structures in the distance.

Aden Harbor shoreline seen across blue water, with low hills, small boats, pale waterfront structures, and scattered clouds. — Shoreline, hills, and small boats seen across Aden Harbor.

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