Persian Gulf-1947: View Of The Ocean On A Cloudy Day With A Mild Surf In The

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Year1947
Decade1940s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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View Of The Ocean On A Cloudy Day With A Mild Surf In The — Clip Details

PERSIAN GULF-1947: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a serene ocean view from a moving vessel, with a rocky island visible on the horizon under a hazy, overcast sky. The footage shows gentle surf rolling across the water, with a traditional dhow sailboat appearing in the distance. Shot through a window frame, the film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, scratches, and soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of mid-20th century maritime travel.

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: 124759794

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: Supports 1940s maritime travel or Persian Gulf atmosphere requests needing brief archival water views for documentary, museum, education, or editorial use.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-20th-century travel footage, with a distant sailboat, hazy shoreline, and window-framed view consistent with home-movie filming from a vessel.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual passenger viewpoint, filming open water and a passing sailboat through a dark window frame without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm sea, mild surf, hazy horizon, distant low shoreline or island, window mullions, film scratches, and a small sailboat in the final frame.
Film character: Soft focus, muted exposure, visible grain, scratches, and slight contact-sheet density shifts give the 8mm footage a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime insert, travel transition, establishing cutaway, or quiet memory beat between shipboard and coastal material.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for sea travel and coastal views in a Persian Gulf-labeled 1940s home-movie reel, without identifying a specific port or landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still verify copyright, source licensing, and any location claims before publication.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1940s 8mm Persian Gulf ocean view, vintage home movie sea travel, cloudy maritime horizon, or distant dhow sailboat footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with confirmed 1947 Persian Gulf material, then with broader vintage maritime travel and sailboat cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1940s 8mm home-movie frame showing calm water and a distant hazy shoreline through a dark vessel window frame. — A muted sea horizon is filmed through a dark window frame on an overcast day.

Archival 8mm frame of calm open water and a distant low shoreline, partly divided by a dark window mullion. — Open water and a faint shoreline appear beyond the vessel window frame.

Vintage 8mm frame with calm water, a blurred coastal horizon, and dark vertical window framing from a vessel viewpoint. — The camera holds on the water and faint horizon through the window structure.

1940s Persian Gulf-labeled home-movie frame showing a small distant sailboat on calm water through a vessel window. — A small sailboat passes in the distance on the quiet water.

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