Persian Gulf-1947: Vintage 8mm View Of Coastal Pier And Ocean

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Year1947
Decade1940s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Vintage 8mm View Of Coastal Pier And Ocean — Clip Details

PERSIAN GULF-1947: This vintage 8mm home movie captures a serene coastal view through a window frame, showing the calm blue waters of the Persian Gulf under an overcast sky. The footage reveals a distant pier with lamp posts and faint structures along the shoreline, all viewed through the aged, scratched lens of an old film camera. The grainy texture and faded colors evoke a nostalgic, historical atmosphere, offering authentic archival footage of mid-20th century seaside life.

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: 124759824

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 productions needing a brief coastal Persian Gulf cutaway with pier, sea, shoreline, and home-movie atmosphere.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-20th-century seaside infrastructure, including simple pier lamps, distant shore buildings, and a view framed by a window or structural divider.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged traveler or resident view, watching the water and pier from behind a frame rather than composing a formal scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, a distant horizon, pier decking, lamp posts, shoreline structures, pale sky, and dark window or film-strip dividers.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, faded color, visible grain, vertical scratches, dust specks, and slight handheld instability consistent with physical home-movie film.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a quiet establishing insert, coastal transition, travel-memory beat, or contextual cutaway within a 1940s regional sequence.
Historical context: The view suggests everyday coastal observation near the Persian Gulf, with modest waterfront infrastructure and no visible crowds, vehicles, or commercial signage.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status, exact location, and any property or shoreline permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1940s 8mm Persian Gulf coast, vintage pier ocean view, home movie shoreline, and archival seaside travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel coastal views, then other 1947 Persian Gulf material, then broader 1940s ocean, pier, and travel-home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1947 8mm view of Persian Gulf water and horizon, partially blocked by dark frame edges and faint pier lamps. — Ocean horizon and distant lamps viewed through a dark foreground frame.

Soft 8mm frame showing Persian Gulf water, pale sky, and distant pier lamps split by a dark vertical divider. — Distant pier lamps and open water divided by the foreground frame.

1947 8mm coastal view with pier decking, lamp posts, blue water, and hazy shoreline in the Persian Gulf region. — Pier and lamps appear in front of blue water and a hazy shore.

Soft 1947 8mm frame showing Persian Gulf water with faint shoreline structures beyond the bay. — Faint shoreline structures sit beyond the water in soft focus.

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