Persian Gulf-1947: View Of The Ocean Through Steel Beams

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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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View Of The Ocean Through Steel Beams — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1947, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of the Persian Gulf from a moving vessel. Through a cross of white steel beams, the camera frames the deep blue ocean and a distant sandy shoreline under a hazy sky. The footage shows subtle camera movement, likely from a boat, with a lamppost and a small buoy visible in the water. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight color fading, and minor scratches, 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: 124759815

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 maritime travel or Persian Gulf editorial sequences needing a brief vessel-view cutaway from archival 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The white steel cross-bracing, simple waterfront light pole, distant low shoreline, and 8mm color stock may show mid-20th-century shipboard or pier-side viewing conditions.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged feel of a traveler filming through nearby vessel or waterfront structure while looking out toward open water and a sandy horizon.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue-green water, a pale distant shoreline, hazy sky, white diagonal steel beams, a dark vertical post, a light pole, and small water markers.
Film character: The clip carries a period 8mm texture with soft focus, muted color, light handheld drift, gate-edge darkness, dust specks, and fine surface scratches.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet maritime insert, travel transition, geographic establishing detail, or reflective memory beat between stronger narrative scenes.
Historical context: The view suggests leisure or transit near a Gulf shoreline, but the frames do not identify a specific port, vessel, landmark, or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable signage are visible, though copyright status and any underlying location or vessel-property considerations should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1947 8mm Persian Gulf ocean view, vintage shipboard shoreline footage, steel beams over water, and home-movie maritime cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then with confirmed Persian Gulf or 1947 travel footage, then with broader vintage ocean and shipboard-view material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Archival 8mm view of the Persian Gulf shoreline through white steel cross-bracing, with hazy sky and open water beyond. — Open water and a low sandy horizon are framed by white diagonal steel beams.

Persian Gulf water and a low shoreline appear behind a dark vertical post, white steel bracing, and a small waterfront light pole. — A light pole and low shore sit beyond crossing steel beams over the water.

A shipboard or pier-side 8mm view looks past white metal bracing toward Persian Gulf water, a light pole, and a distant sandy shore. — Steel bracing crosses the frame as the camera looks toward open water and a low horizon.

The final frame shows muted blue water and a low Persian Gulf shoreline through white diagonal beams, vertical supports, and visible film wear. — Vertical supports and diagonal bracing frame a calm view across the water.

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