Persian Gulf-1947: Island Lighthouse in Ocean View Vintage 8mm Film

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Year1947
Decade1940s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Island Lighthouse in Ocean View Vintage 8mm Film — Clip Details

PERSIAN GULF-1947: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a distant rocky island rising from calm waters, its silhouette framed by the dark edges of a window or porthole. A small lighthouse stands atop the island, visible in the final frames, as the camera slowly pans across the hazy horizon. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, muted color tones, and subtle film scratches, evoking a sense of quiet isolation and mid-century maritime nostalgia. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse of the Persian Gulf's coastal landscape in the late 1940s, 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: 124759778

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports requests for 1940s maritime home-movie footage, especially distant island, sea horizon, and lighthouse cutaways for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The 1947 metadata and 8mm color stock support a late-1940s reading, while the visible scene itself shows only a rocky offshore island, calm water, and a small beacon-like structure.
Home-movie behavior: The framing through dark vertical edges suggests a passenger or traveler filming from a vessel or window rather than a staged scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm sea, hazy horizon, rocky island cliffs, a small lighthouse or marker, dark frame edges, film dust, and soft handheld composition.
Film character: The clip has muted color, soft focus, visible grain, light scratches, and slight exposure variation consistent with scanned mid-century 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a maritime establishing insert, quiet travel transition, island cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a 1940s archive sequence.
Historical context: The footage may show a coastal navigation landmark viewed from offshore, but the frames do not identify the island, country, vessel, or exact route.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any location-based property or landmark permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1947 8mm island lighthouse, vintage Persian Gulf sea horizon, rocky island home movie, and mid-century maritime travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel travel footage, then with verified 1947 Persian Gulf material, and finally with broader island, lighthouse, sea passage, or maritime navigation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A hazy offshore rocky island sits beyond calm sea, with dark vertical edges suggesting filming through a window or porthole. — Distant island seen across a calm horizon through dark framing edges.

The rocky island remains centered beyond flat water, softened by haze and framed by dark vertical borders from the shooting position. — Rocky offshore landform held in a soft, hazy seascape.

A lower rocky island appears across calm sea, with a small light-colored tower or lighthouse-like marker visible near the top. — Small beacon-like structure visible on a low rocky island.

The final frame shows the rocky island and a small pale lighthouse-like structure against a hazy sky above the quiet sea. — Rocky island with a small lighthouse-like marker on the horizon.

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