Persian Gulf-1947: A Ship Battling Rough Seas and Turbulent Waves

$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

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

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A Ship Battling Rough Seas and Turbulent Waves — Clip Details

PERSIAN GULF-1947: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a ship battling rough seas, its bow cutting through turbulent waves under a cloudy sky. The footage, shot from the deck, shows the vessel's railing and structure silhouetted against churning blue water, with whitecaps and spray indicating strong currents. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and edge damage, evoking a sense of historical urgency and maritime adventure. This authentic archival clip offers a dramatic, immersive view of ocean travel in the late 1940s, ideal for documentaries, historical narratives, or nostalgic content.

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: 124759487

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 archive requests needing rough-sea shipboard travel footage for documentary inserts, historical sequences, or atmospheric ocean transit scenes.
Period detail: The metadata dates the footage to 1947, while the visible ship rail, deck structure, and color 8mm home-movie texture may show mid-century sea travel without identifying a specific vessel or route.
Home-movie behavior: The camera appears handheld from aboard the vessel, giving an unstaged passenger or crew perspective as the ship rises and falls through heavy waves.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include churning blue water, whitecaps, ship railing, dark deck structures, cloudy sky, spray, and silhouetted fittings near the bow or side of the vessel.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, blue cast, heavy grain, gate edges, dust, and slight blur that read as physical-film texture from a short handheld home-movie segment.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, transition, travel insert, or memory beat to suggest rough passage by sea in a 1940s archival sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually conveys ocean travel under difficult weather, but the frames do not identify the ship, passengers, port, or exact Persian Gulf location.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in the provided frames, though copyright, vessel identification, and location claims should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Researcher searches might include 1947 8mm ship in rough seas, Persian Gulf home movie ocean waves, vintage deck view at sea, and archival maritime travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with confirmed 1947 or Persian Gulf material, and then with broader maritime travel or rough-sea home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1947 8mm shipboard footage shows turbulent blue water, spray, railings, and silhouetted deck structure beneath a cloudy sky. — Rough sea viewed from the deck as waves break beside the vessel.

The deck-side view shows heavy waves and whitecaps beside silhouetted ship fittings, with the horizon obscured by motion and spray. — Whitecaps roll past the ship's side in a handheld deck view.

Handheld 8mm view from the vessel shows rough blue water, foam, railings, and silhouetted deck equipment in cloudy light. — The camera looks over deck fittings toward breaking waves.

A larger swell passes alongside the ship, with foaming water, silhouetted railing, and dark vertical deck structure visible at frame edge. — A swell rises beside the ship as foam spreads across the water.

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