Persian Gulf-1947: Safety Flotation Device With Red And White Stripes And Many

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Year1947
Decade1940s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Safety Flotation Device With Red And White Stripes And Many — Clip Details

PERSIAN GULF-1947: A vintage 8mm home movie clip captures a red and white life preserver ring labeled 'JOHN S. MOSBY' and 'JACKSONVILLE, FLA.' against a backdrop of churning ocean waves. The footage, shot from a moving vessel, shows turbulent seas with whitecaps under an overcast sky, framed by the dark edges of a ship's window. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film evokes a sense of mid-century maritime adventure and archival authenticity.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124759371

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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: 1947 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: 1940s 8mm maritime home-movie footage suited for documentary or museum inserts needing shipboard safety detail and open-sea travel atmosphere.
Period detail: The red and white life ring marked "JOHN S. MOSBY" and "JACKSONVILLE, FLA." may show mid-century vessel equipment, while the metadata places the reel in 1947.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged passenger viewpoint, looking from a moving vessel toward a life preserver and rough water rather than a composed scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red and white life ring, painted lettering, ship rail or deck structure, dark window or film-frame edges, open ocean, whitecaps, cloudy sky, and film dust.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, gate edges, and handheld or vessel-motion instability that read as physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime cutaway, shipboard transition, voyage-establishing insert, or memory beat between broader travel sequences.
Historical context: The footage suggests ship travel across rough seas, with a safety ring and open water giving context for passenger or crew movement without showing people.
Research note: No people are visible, but the named vessel or organization marking on the life ring should be reviewed separately from copyright, likeness, or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s 8mm shipboard life preserver, vintage ocean whitecaps from vessel, Persian Gulf home movie sea travel, and Jacksonville marked life ring.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then with other 1947 Persian Gulf or shipboard material, then with broader ocean travel, vessel safety, and rough-sea archive themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A red and white life ring labeled "JOHN S. MOSBY" and "JACKSONVILLE, FLA." mounted against ship structure in 1947 8mm footage. — Life preserver ring with Jacksonville marking on a vessel.

Rough open water and a low horizon under overcast sky, filmed from a moving vessel in archival 8mm footage. — Whitecapped sea viewed from a moving vessel.

A low horizon of rough sea beneath a pale cloudy sky, with 8mm grain and dust visible across the frame. — Choppy water and cloudy sky on the open sea.

Open sea with rolling waves and whitecaps fills the lower frame, with overcast sky above in a faded 8mm scan. — Rolling waves and whitecaps under an overcast sky.

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