Persian Gulf-1947: Sunset Scene With Clouds And Pole View

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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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Sunset Scene With Clouds And Pole View — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1947, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic sunset over the Persian Gulf. The frame is split by a vertical pole, likely a window mullion, framing a sky ablaze with orange, pink, and purple hues. Clouds stretch across the horizon above silhouetted mountains, their edges glowing in the fading light. The film shows natural grain and slight color fading, characteristic of mid-century home movies. This archival footage evokes a quiet, nostalgic moment of nature viewed from a private vantage point.

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: 124759751

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 requests needing a short atmospheric sunset cutaway, natural-color sky insert, or quiet travel-home-movie transition without people or identifiable brands.
Period detail: The clip may show a 1947 8mm home-movie view, with period cues mainly in the physical film texture, color response, and simple framed vantage through a vertical pole or mullion.
Home-movie behavior: The view feels casually observed from a private or sheltered position, holding on changing sunset color rather than staging action or directing subjects.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a glowing orange horizon, purple-blue upper sky, bands of red cloud, dark distant hills or shoreline, and a vertical pole splitting the view.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, slight weave, dust marks, and warm color fading that read as mid-century home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a reflective insert, end-of-day transition, travel-memory beat, or atmospheric cutaway between more specific Persian Gulf or 1940s material.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for leisure or travel observation around the Persian Gulf area, but the frames themselves do not identify a specific port, landmark, or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, source permissions, and any location-specific claims should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1940s 8mm sunset, Persian Gulf home movie sky, vintage travel sunset clouds, and archival color film horizon cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage from the same trip, then with confirmed 1947 Persian Gulf scenes, and then with broader sunset, travel, sea, or memory-themed archive clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1947 8mm home-movie frame of a vivid sunset sky over a dark distant horizon, with a vertical pole or mullion crossing the view. — Sunset colors spread above a dark horizon, seen through a vertical divider.

Archival 8mm view of red-purple clouds over an orange sunset horizon, framed by dark vertical bars in the foreground. — Dark foreground dividers frame a glowing sunset and layered cloud band.

1947 home-movie sunset frame with a broad red cloud band, orange lower sky, dark horizon, and a vertical pole near the right edge. — A broad colored cloud band hangs above the fading horizon light.

Final 8mm frame of the sunset, with purple-blue sky, reddish clouds, a dark low horizon, and a foreground vertical bar on the left. — The sunset dims into purple sky and red cloud over a silhouetted horizon.

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