Persian Gulf-1947: Rough Ocean Waves Under Overcast Sky

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Year1947
Decade1940s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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

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Rough Ocean Waves Under Overcast Sky — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1947, this vintage home movie captures turbulent ocean waves under a heavy, overcast sky. The footage, likely filmed from a moving vessel, shows churning blue water with whitecaps and visible film grain, scratches, and dust. The dark frame borders suggest a projection or viewing through a window. The scene evokes a sense of raw nature and maritime adventure, with the stormy sea dominating the frame. This archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century maritime 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: 124759385

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: 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

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: 1940s archival home-movie footage for productions needing a brief maritime weather, open-water, or rough-sea insert without people or identifiable property in view.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century 8mm travel footage, with only the film format, heavy grain, rounded frame edges, and blue-tinted sea-and-sky exposure offering visible era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip appears to be filmed from a moving vessel by an amateur camera operator responding to the motion of the sea rather than staging a composed scenic view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark ocean swells, whitecaps, a low horizon, cloudy overcast sky, soft focus, gate edges, vertical scratches, and dust specks.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, frame-edge vignetting, scratches, and dust that read as physical-film texture from a short home-movie fragment.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime cutaway, weather transition, voyage insert, or tense memory beat between travel or shipboard scenes.
Historical context: The footage provides a general visual record of rough open water and cloudy conditions in a 1940s home-movie context, without visible ships, people, landmarks, or activity that would support a more specific historical claim.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, private property, or identifiable landmarks are visible, but copyright status and any production-specific maritime or location claims should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches include 1940s 8mm rough ocean waves, vintage home movie stormy sea, Persian Gulf 1947 waves if relying on supplied metadata, and archival open-water whitecaps.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1947 or Persian Gulf maritime material when independently supported, and then with broader rough-sea, shipboard-travel, or weather cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

Rough open-water swells fill the lower frame beneath an overcast sky, with soft 8mm texture, dust, and dark gate edges visible. — Rough sea beneath an overcast horizon.

Blue-gray waves roll across the frame under heavy cloud cover, with visible grain, small scratches, and the dark edge of the film gate. — Whitecaps on rolling open water.

A choppy sea surface rises toward a low horizon beneath muted clouds, with scratches and dust marking the 8mm home-movie frame. — Choppy water with a muted horizon.

Dark blue ocean swells dominate the frame below a gray overcast sky, with whitecaps, grain, dust, and rounded gate edges visible. — Dark swells under gray cloud cover.

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