Persian Gulf-1947: Massive Waves Crashing from Ship Deck

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Year1947
Decade1940s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Massive Waves Crashing from Ship Deck — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1947, this archival footage captures a dramatic view from a ship's deck during a storm in the Persian Gulf. The camera holds steady as massive, churning waves crash against the vessel, their whitecaps stark against the deep blue sea. The dark silhouette of the ship's railing and deck equipment frames the turbulent waters, conveying the raw power of the rough seas. The film's characteristic grain and color degradation add to the authentic, nostalgic feel of this historic home movie.

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: 124759519

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 archival productions needing an at-sea insert of rough weather, heavy swell, or shipboard travel in the Persian Gulf region.
Period detail: The 8mm color home-movie look and ship-deck viewpoint support a mid-20th-century maritime travel context, with no visible landmarks to confirm exact location.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from the deck during rough seas, giving an immediate traveler or crew-side perspective rather than a staged maritime scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark ship railings, deck fittings, rolling blue sea, whitecaps, distant horizon, cloudy sky, and heavy spray near the vessel.
Film character: The clip has saturated blue color, soft focus, gate edges, visible grain, and slight handheld steadiness typical of scanned 8mm home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief cutaway, transition, or tension-building insert for ocean travel, storm weather, voyage memory, or maritime risk.
Historical context: The footage may show ordinary shipboard passage through rough open water, emphasizing the physical experience of sea travel before modern stabilization.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable vessel names are visible, but copyright, source ownership, and any ship or route identification should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Search phrases include 1940s 8mm rough seas, Persian Gulf ship deck waves, vintage home movie ocean storm, and archival footage from vessel in heavy swell.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring footage from the same reel, then with confirmed 1947 Persian Gulf or shipboard travel clips, then with broader rough-sea maritime material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1940s 8mm shipboard view of heavy blue seas and whitecaps beyond dark railings and deck equipment. — Rough open water seen from a ship deck, with railings silhouetted against breaking waves.

Shipboard 8mm view of rough sea and bright white foam, with deck railings silhouetted along the right edge. — Whitecaps break across rough water as the vessel moves through heavy seas.

Heavy ocean swell viewed from a ship deck, with soft 8mm color and dark vessel hardware at the frame edge. — Rolling waves fill the view beyond silhouetted ship hardware and railings.

Final shipboard view of rough seas, deck railing, and distant horizon in soft, grainy 8mm color footage. — The clip ends on rough blue water and ship railings under a pale cloudy sky.

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