Persian Gulf-1947: Camera Captures A Lovely Sunset That Fills The Entire Sky

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Year1947
Decade1940s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Camera Captures A Lovely Sunset That Fills The Entire Sky — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1947, this vintage home movie captures a breathtaking sunset over the Persian Gulf. The sky glows with vibrant orange and deep purple hues, filling the frame with warm, nostalgic light. Silhouetted mountains stretch across the horizon above calm waters, viewed through a window frame that adds a personal, intimate perspective. The footage shows natural film grain and slight motion blur, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. This archival clip evokes a sense of quiet reflection and timeless beauty, perfect for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 124759746

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: 1940s 8mm home-movie sunset view useful for documentary inserts, reflective transitions, and archival atmosphere without people on screen.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly the 8mm color home-movie look, window framing, open water, and a dark horizon that may show distant mountains or shoreline.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged traveler or household viewpoint, watching the sunset through a window rather than composing a formal scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include orange and purple sunset clouds, dark water, a silhouetted horizon, vertical window bars, heavy frame edges, and soft film grain.
Film character: The footage carries dense 8mm grain, soft focus, dark exposure in the foreground, slight blur, and warm color shifts typical of scanned amateur film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, scene transition, closing beat, or memory image for travel, sea passage, or end-of-day sequences.
Historical context: The scene records a quiet mid-century home-movie observation of sky and water, with no visible people, signs, vessels, or identifiable landmarks in these frames.
Research note: No faces, logos, or readable marks are visible, but copyright and any location or property questions should be reviewed separately from likeness clearance.
Research search match: Search matches include 1940s 8mm sunset over water, vintage home movie sea horizon, window-framed sunset, and archival color travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with confirmed same-year or same-region travel material, then with sunset, sea, or reflective home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1940s 8mm-style home-movie frame of orange sunset clouds, dark water, and a distant silhouetted horizon viewed through window bars. — Orange and purple sunset light hangs above dark water and a silhouetted horizon.

Color 8mm frame showing a sunset cloud band over water and a dark, mountain-like horizon, partially blocked by window framing. — A bright cloud band stretches over water as the horizon falls into silhouette.

Home-movie frame of a warm sunset sky, dark water, and a silhouetted horizon behind vertical window framing. — The camera holds on warm sunset color over water behind the window frame.

Short 8mm-style sunset view with red clouds, dark water, and a silhouetted horizon divided by a vertical window bar. — A vertical window bar divides the sunset clouds above the dark waterline.

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