Persian Gulf-1947: View Of The Ocean On A Bright Sunny Day With A Strong Surf In

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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 On A Bright Sunny Day With A Strong... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1947, this vintage home movie captures a view of the Persian Gulf from a moving vessel. The footage, framed by dark window edges, shows a bright sunny day with calm blue waters and a distant shoreline under a partly cloudy sky. Visible film grain, scratches, and slight blurriness enhance the authentic archival quality. The perspective suggests a journey across the water, with subtle shifts in the horizon line indicating motion. This nostalgic clip offers a rare glimpse of mid-20th century maritime travel and coastal scenery.

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: 124759818

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 or travel sequences needing archival home-movie views of open water and a distant Persian Gulf shoreline from a moving vessel.
Period detail: The 8mm home-movie format, soft color, and window-framed shipboard view support a 1940s travel context, while no specific port, landmark, or vessel is identifiable.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries the unstaged feel of a traveler filming through a vessel window or railing toward water and shore rather than composing a formal scenic view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, a pale distant shoreline, hazy sky, dark window or frame edges, occasional rail or rigging lines, film scratches, and soft focus.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, vertical scratches, slight blur, uneven exposure, and contact-frame artifacts that give it a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short establishing insert, travel transition, maritime cutaway, or reflective memory beat between scenes of Gulf travel or coastal movement.
Historical context: The view suggests mid-century movement by water in the Persian Gulf region, but the frames do not identify a community, port, ship, or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, though copyright status and any location-specific use questions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1940s 8mm Persian Gulf water view, vintage shipboard shoreline footage, home movie ocean horizon, and archival maritime travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1947 Persian Gulf material if verified, and then with broader 1940s maritime travel or coastal scenery clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1947 8mm home-movie view toward Persian Gulf water and a far shoreline, partly obscured by dark window edges and diagonal framing. — Water and distant shore viewed from behind dark vessel framing.

Soft 8mm view of Persian Gulf water with a pale low shoreline on the horizon, framed by dark vertical window or structural edges. — Distant shoreline across calm blue water through a dark frame.

1940s 8mm frame showing blue water, a hazy distant coast, and dark vessel-window framing with visible scratches and softness. — Low coast and water seen from a moving vessel viewpoint.

Final 8mm view of Persian Gulf water and a low shoreline under a pale sky, with dark window edges and light film scratching visible. — Shoreline remains distant as the vessel view holds on the water.

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