Persian Gulf-1947: Boat Rising And Falling In Turbulent Blue Ocean Waves With

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Year1947
Decade1940s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Boat Rising And Falling In Turbulent Blue Ocean Waves With — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1947, this vintage footage captures a ship's mast and rigging as it rises and falls on turbulent blue ocean waves in the Persian Gulf. The camera remains fixed from the deck, offering a first-person view of the vessel navigating rough seas under a cloudy sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight instability, evoking a sense of raw, unfiltered maritime adventure from the post-war era. This authentic home movie clip provides a rare glimpse into mid-century seafaring life.

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: 124759663

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: 1947 8mm maritime home-movie footage for productions needing a mid-century sea-travel cutaway, rough-water insert, or archival voyage atmosphere.
Period detail: The frame may show a mid-20th-century small vessel deck view, with mast hardware, rigging lines, and a low horizon as the boat moves through open water.
Home-movie behavior: The fixed deck-level viewpoint has the unstaged feel of a traveler filming the vessel's motion rather than composing a scenic maritime shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a metal mast, rigging lines, choppy blue water, cloudy sky, a deck edge, rounded deck equipment, and black film borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, color shifts toward blue and violet, exposure variation, and slight frame instability consistent with physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or subjective point-of-view beat to suggest sea passage, rough weather, or travel by boat.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for postwar-era personal travel or maritime movement without showing people, ports, cargo, or identifiable vessels.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any vessel or location identification should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1947 8mm boat deck footage, rough ocean home movie, mid-century ship mast and rigging, and Persian Gulf voyage footage if relying on catalog metadata.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1947 or Persian Gulf cataloged material, then broader rough-sea, boat-deck, and ocean-travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1947 8mm deck view of a boat mast and rigging rising against choppy blue water and cloud cover. — Mast and rigging frame a rough open-water view from the deck.

Deck-level 8mm view of mast cables and a rolling ocean horizon, cataloged as 1947 Persian Gulf footage. — Rigging cuts across the frame as the vessel moves through rough water.

1947 8mm boat-deck view with rigging, mast hardware, and turbulent blue water below a clouded sky. — The mast remains centered while the sea surface shifts with the boat's motion.

Cataloged 1947 Persian Gulf deck view showing mast, rigging, rounded deck equipment, and rough open water. — Deck equipment appears at the lower edge while rigging crosses the open-sea view.

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