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Aden Yemen-1946: An Afternoon At The Bay During A Slightly Cloudy But Mostly

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

  • Year1946
  • Decade1940s
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD

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An Afternoon At The Bay During A Slightly Cloudy But Mostly — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a serene afternoon at a coastal bay in Aden, Yemen. A small sailboat with a white sail glides across the calm blue water, framed by a distant shoreline dotted with low buildings. A prominent hill topped with a cross rises above the town under a partly cloudy sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural camera movement, evoking a nostalgic, historical atmosphere of mid-20th century coastal life.

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
124753942

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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

  • bay
  • ocean
  • blue sky
  • cloudy
  • cotton
  • clouds
  • sunny
  • peaceful
  • afternoon
  • day
  • nature
  • aden yemen
  • 1946
  • Aden Yemen 1946
  • 8mm film
  • vintage home movie
  • coastal town
  • sailboat
  • historic footage
  • archival film
  • mid-century
  • colonial era
  • Arabian Peninsula
  • maritime
  • old film
  • nostalgic
  • travel
  • seaside
  • 1940s
  • vintage footage
  • historical
  • old footage
  • 8mm home movie
  • 1946 footage
  • Yemeni coast
  • sailing
  • old film footage

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
1940s 8mm coastal bay footage suited for documentary inserts about Aden, maritime travel, colonial-era port cities, or home-movie views of waterfront life.
Period detail
The clip may show a mid-1940s harbor town with low shoreline buildings, small boats, and a hilltop cross or marker visible beyond the bay.
Home-movie behavior
The view feels visitor-shot from across the water, holding on the shoreline and sailboat without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include calm blue water, a small white sailboat, distant low buildings, a rounded hill, a hilltop cross or mast, scattered clouds, and film-frame borders.
Film character
The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate edges, and gentle handheld steadiness typical of home-movie material.
Edit role
Editors could use this as a quiet establishing insert, waterfront cutaway, travel transition, or reflective memory beat in a historical sequence.
Historical context
The footage provides a distant civilian view of a coastal settlement and bay, with no visible crowd activity, traffic, signage, or identifiable individuals.
Research note
No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or landmark permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match
Useful search matches include 1940s 8mm Aden harbor, Yemen bay home movie, vintage sailboat waterfront, and colonial-era port shoreline footage.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1946 Aden or Yemen footage, then broader 1940s harbor, sailboat, and coastal travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1940s 8mm home-movie view identified with Aden, Yemen, showing a sailboat on calm water before a distant town and hill.
A small sailboat crosses calm bay water in front of a distant shoreline and hill.
Distant waterfront view from 1946 8mm footage, with a white sailboat moving across the bay below a hilltop marker.
The sailboat remains near the shoreline as low buildings and a hill sit in the background.
Soft 8mm frame of a coastal bay identified in metadata as Aden, Yemen, with a sailboat and distant waterfront buildings.
A visitor-shot bay view shows the sailboat closer to the lower frame with the town beyond.
End frame from 1946 8mm bay footage, showing a small sailboat, distant shoreline buildings, and a hill under a partly cloudy sky.
The final frame holds on the sailboat and distant shoreline beneath a lightly clouded sky.

Visually Similar Clips

← Previous in archiveAden Yemen-1946: Sailboat On Calm Waters With Hilltop Settlement And CrossNext in archive →Aden Yemen-1946: Panorama Of Port With Boats And Mountains In Background
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