Persian Gulf-1947: Video Taken From A Ship Out On The Sea As Water Swells Rise

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Year1947
Decade1940s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Video Taken From A Ship Out On The Sea As Water Swells Rise — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1947, this vintage footage captures a ship navigating rough seas in the Persian Gulf. The camera looks out from the deck, showing turbulent blue waves with whitecaps churning under an overcast sky. The dark silhouette of the ship's rail and structure appears in the foreground, emphasizing the vessel's movement through the stormy water. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and age marks, giving it an authentic mid-century home movie feel. This archival clip conveys the power of the ocean and the experience of sea travel during the post-war era.

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: 124759476

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 or travel sequences needing archival home-movie footage of a ship moving through heavy seas.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage and deck-level viewpoint may show mid-20th-century sea travel, with no visible landmarks or identifying vessel details.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from aboard the vessel as waves rise and fall, giving an unstaged passenger or crew perspective on rough water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark ship railings, deck structure, rolling blue swells, white foam, an overcast sky, and film-frame edges.
Film character: The clip has visible grain, soft focus, color fading, handheld framing, and exposure shifts consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime insert, travel transition, storm-at-sea cutaway, or atmospheric memory beat.
Historical context: The footage documents rough open water from a shipboard viewpoint without enough visual evidence to identify a precise route, port, or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should review copyright status and confirm any location or vessel claims separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1940s 8mm ship footage, rough sea home movie, Persian Gulf waves, ocean swells, and deck-view maritime travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other 1947 Persian Gulf or shipboard material, then broader rough-sea and maritime travel clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1947 8mm frame showing rough open water and a cloudy horizon from a shipboard viewpoint. — Rolling blue waves and whitecaps fill the horizon under an overcast sky.

Open water appears choppy in this 8mm shipboard view, with whitecaps beneath an overcast sky. — Choppy open sea with scattered whitecaps seen from the moving vessel.

A dark ship rail and deck structure frame foaming waves in this 1947 8mm shipboard scene. — Foam breaks alongside the vessel as dark railings cut into the frame.

The vessel's dark railing is visible beside a rising swell and white foam in rough open water. — A large wave rises ahead of the ship, with railing and deck details at the edge.

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