Aden Yemen-1946: Coastal Settlement by Harbor

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationAden, Yemen
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Aden Yemen

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Coastal Settlement by Harbor — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage footage captures a coastal settlement in Aden, Yemen, viewed from across a calm blue harbor. The scene reveals low-rise buildings clustered along a hilly shoreline under a bright sky with scattered clouds. Small boats dot the water, and a faint cross is visible on a distant hilltop. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight blurriness, and a blue-tinted color palette characteristic of mid-century home movies. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse of daily life and urban development in Aden during the post-war era.

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: 124753929

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: Aden, Yemen 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 archival requests needing a brief coastal harbor view from Aden, Yemen, for documentary, museum, education, or editorial context.
Period detail: The low shoreline buildings, small harbor craft, and soft color 8mm look may show a mid-1940s visitor view of a coastal settlement rather than a staged city record.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a visitor-shot home movie, holding on a distant waterfront from across calm water without visible posing or directed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue harbor water, a hilly shoreline, clustered low buildings, small boats, scattered clouds, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture through soft focus, blue color cast, gate framing, light dust, and gentle exposure variation across the short view.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing insert, geographic transition, harbor cutaway, or quiet memory beat for postwar coastal Aden context.
Historical context: The view gives visual context for shoreline settlement, harbor activity, and built-up hillsides, without enough detail to identify individual sites or events.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but copyright, archive ownership, and any property or location identification should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1940s 8mm Aden harbor footage, Yemen coastal settlement home movie, vintage waterfront establishing shot, and postwar port town view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Aden or Yemen material from 1946, then broader coastal harbor and colonial-era city views.

Still Frames From This Clip

Soft 8mm view of a coastal settlement identified in metadata as Aden, Yemen, seen across calm blue harbor water in 1946. — A distant waterfront settlement and hillside are seen from across the harbor.

Distant harbor view with clustered shoreline buildings and low hills, captured in soft blue-tinted 8mm home-movie footage. — Clustered buildings line a distant shoreline beyond the harbor water.

A blue-toned 8mm frame shows small boats on harbor water and low waterfront buildings along a distant hillside. — Small boats sit on the water in front of a distant waterfront settlement.

Final soft 8mm view of the distant Aden harbor shoreline, with small boats on blue water and low hills behind buildings. — The harbor view continues with boats in the foreground and a hilly shoreline beyond.

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