Aden Yemen-1946: Water View Of Harbor And Rugged Mountains On A Peaceful Day

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Year1946
Decade1940s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Water View Of Harbor And Rugged Mountains On A Peaceful Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil view of Aden, Yemen, featuring a calm harbor with small boats and low-lying buildings along the waterfront. In the background, rugged, dark mountains rise under a partly cloudy sky, their slopes showing natural textures and shadows. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and subtle film scratches, conveying a nostalgic, archival quality. The camera remains steady, offering a peaceful, wide-angle perspective of the coastal landscape during daylight.

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: 124753972

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: Useful for 1940s archival requests needing an establishing harbor view of Aden, Yemen, for documentary, museum, education, or contextual travel sequences.
Period detail: The footage may show a mid-1940s waterfront with small boats, low harbor buildings, and a rugged mountain backdrop, though no readable signs or landmarks are visible.
Home-movie behavior: The steady visitor-shot framing records the harbor from a distance as an observed place rather than a staged scene or formal survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, small boats, low waterfront structures, dark mountain ridges, cloud cover, distant shoreline, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, light scratches, mild fading, and a steady wide composition that preserves its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, geographic transition, quiet cutaway, or reflective memory beat for coastal Aden or broader 1940s travel material.
Historical context: The view provides visual context for a harbor settlement set against volcanic-looking mountains, without confirming specific buildings, events, or port activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious branded material are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1940s 8mm Aden harbor footage, Yemen waterfront mountains, vintage home movie coastal view, and calm harbor establishing shot.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Aden material, then with 1946 Yemen or regional harbor views, then with broader mountain-backed coastal travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 8mm view of Aden, Yemen, showing a calm harbor, small boats, low shoreline structures, and rugged mountains beneath a cloudy sky. — Wide harbor view with boats and waterfront buildings below rugged mountains.

Aden harbor appears across the water, with small boats near the shoreline and dark mountain ridges filling the background. — Small boats and low harbor buildings sit below a broad mountain ridge.

The 8mm frame shows a distant Aden waterfront with calm water, small boats, low structures, and steep shadowed mountains behind. — Distant waterfront and boats framed against steep shadowed mountains.

A wide home-movie view of Aden harbor shows low waterfront buildings and moored boats beneath rugged mountains and a cloudy sky. — Mountain-backed harbor shoreline with low buildings and boats in daylight.

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