Persian Gulf-1947: Ship Battling Rough Seas In Stormy Waters

$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.

Year1947
Decade1940s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

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

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Ship Battling Rough Seas In Stormy Waters — Clip Details

PERSIAN GULF-1947: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a ship battling rough seas, its bow cutting through turbulent waves under a stormy sky. Shot from the deck, the footage shows churning whitecaps and dark, rolling water, conveying the intensity of a bumpy voyage. The film's grain, scratches, and faded colors reflect its age, offering authentic archival footage of maritime travel in the late 1940s. This raw, unfiltered perspective immerses viewers in the experience of sailing through a storm.

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: 124759434

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

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports documentary or editorial requests for 1940s maritime travel footage showing a ship encountering rough seas from an onboard home-movie viewpoint.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage and shipboard perspective may show late-1940s passenger or working-vessel travel, with no visible landmarks or readable identifiers.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged value as a traveler-shot view from deck level, emphasizing the motion, spray, and limited visibility of a rough ocean passage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a ship rail or deck edge, a partial superstructure, dark ocean swells, white breaking waves, cloudy sky, and film gate borders.
Film character: The footage shows soft focus, faded color, handheld framing, visible grain, scratches, and exposure variation consistent with scanned mid-century 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or sensory cutaway for sea travel, storm conditions, voyage hardship, or archival maritime atmosphere.
Historical context: The view documents the experience of being aboard a vessel in heavy seas, but the frames do not independently identify the exact route, ship, or shore context.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable property marks are visible, but copyright, source ownership, vessel identification, and location claims should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1940s 8mm rough seas, vintage ship deck storm footage, home movie ocean voyage, and archival maritime travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with any confirmed Persian Gulf or 1947 shipboard material, then with broader rough-sea travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1940s 8mm frame from aboard a ship, looking past the deck edge toward churning waves and a cloudy horizon. — A deck-level view shows whitecaps and rolling water beside the vessel.

A shipboard 8mm view shows dark swells and white breaking waves beyond part of the vessel. — Heavy waves fill the horizon beyond the ship structure at frame left.

The vessel appears to pitch beside rough water, with white foam and dark blue swells visible through soft 8mm color. — The sea appears turbulent as the camera looks out from the ship's side.

A darker shipboard frame shows railing or deck equipment silhouetted against distant open water and a cloudy sky. — The final frame shifts to a darker onboard view with sea and sky in the distance.

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