Persian Gulf-1947: Boat Sailing On A Very Rough Sea With Big Waves

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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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Boat Sailing On A Very Rough Sea With Big Waves — Clip Details

PERSIAN GULF-1947: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a ship battling rough seas, its deck visible on the right as massive waves crash against the hull. The sky is overcast with heavy clouds, and the deep blue water churns with whitecaps, conveying the intensity of a storm at sea. The footage shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and subtle camera movement, characteristic of mid-20th century amateur recordings. This archival clip offers a dramatic, immersive view of maritime 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: 124759536

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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1940s maritime, travel, weather, and ship-at-sea requests for documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions needing real 8mm rough-sea footage.
Period detail: The clip may show a postwar-era sea crossing, with a ship deck edge, railings, and film color consistent with 1947 amateur 8mm material.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels passenger-shot from aboard a vessel, recording the force of heavy waves rather than staging a formal maritime scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark ship structure, a deck edge, railings, rolling blue water, whitecaps, heavy clouds, spray, and vertical film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has dense grain, soft focus, blue color shift, uneven exposure, gate edges, and handheld motion that mark it as scanned physical 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a storm-at-sea insert, maritime transition, voyage cutaway, or tense travel-memory beat.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for mid-20th-century sea travel by showing rough open water from the deck of an unidentified vessel.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, source ownership, vessel identification, and location claims should still be checked.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1940s 8mm rough sea, vintage home movie ship deck waves, stormy ocean travel footage, and Persian Gulf voyage footage if that cataloging is confirmed.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with confirmed 1947 or Persian Gulf maritime material, then with broader rough-sea travel and shipboard themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1947 8mm frame of heavy waves under cloudy sky, viewed from a vessel with dark deck structure along the right edge. — Heavy waves roll beside the ship under an overcast sky.

A rough open sea fills the frame, with white spray and part of the ship silhouetted at the right in 8mm home-movie footage. — Churning water and spray pass alongside the vessel.

Blue-gray waves and whitecaps stretch across the horizon, with the ship deck and dark vertical structure visible at right. — The ship moves through rolling water beneath heavy clouds.

A larger wave breaks near the vessel, with railings and deck structure silhouetted against the stormy sea and cloudy sky. — A breaking wave rises near the side of the ship.

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