Persian Gulf-1947: Ocean Being Filmed From The Inside Of A Boat

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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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Ocean Being Filmed From The Inside Of A Boat — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1947, this vintage home movie captures a view from inside a boat navigating the Persian Gulf. The camera looks out through a window at churning blue ocean waves under an overcast sky. Silhouetted railings and structural elements frame the turbulent sea, conveying the motion of the vessel. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and film scratches, offering authentic archival footage of maritime travel from the mid-20th century.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124759437

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s maritime travel edits needing an interior boat view of rough open water, especially as a cutaway for sea passage or voyage context.
Period detail: The frame may show mid-20th-century small-vessel structure, with dark window posts, railings, and a covered fitting visible against the sea.
Home-movie behavior: The unstaged value comes from a passenger's view from inside the boat, watching shifting waves through the vessel's structure.
What appears in frame: Visible details include choppy blue water, overcast sky, dark window posts, a low rail, a curved interior surface, and a pale overhead boat fitting.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, visible grain, exposure falloff, frame-edge darkness, and small scratches that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, sea-crossing transition, or memory beat between scenes of departure, passage, and arrival.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for boat travel in the Persian Gulf as seen from within a vessel, without identifying a port, route, or named ship.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, but copyright, vessel ownership, and location identification should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1947 8mm Persian Gulf boat footage, rough sea through cabin window, vintage maritime travel, and home-movie ocean view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1947 Persian Gulf material, then broader vintage boat travel and rough-sea cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1947 8mm view from inside a boat looking toward rough blue water under an overcast sky in the Persian Gulf. — A dark interior boat frame and railing silhouette a rough sea beyond.

A home-movie frame shows rough Persian Gulf water beyond silhouetted boat posts, railings, and a pale structural fitting. — The vessel's dark interior structure frames the moving sea outside.

The camera looks past dark boat posts and a low rail toward an overcast horizon and churning water in archival 8mm color. — A shadowed boat interior opens onto cloudy sky and unsettled water.

A dim 8mm frame shows rough water and a clouded horizon viewed through silhouetted posts and railings inside a boat. — The final frame holds on the sea through dark boat-window structure.

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