Leyte Philippines-1944: Small Powered Boats Cross in Front of a Dense Anchorage

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Year1944
Decade1940s
LocationLeyte, Philippines
Duration8s
Price$149 USD
Collection1944 · Leyte, Philippines
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What is in this clip

maritime traffic
military anchorage
wartime logistics
fleet scale
water transport
archival observation

Shot type: wide
Camera: handheld · Elevated oblique view across the water
Setting: outdoor · Crowded maritime anchorage with open foreground water and a distant low shoreline
Time and weather: daytime · undetermined · cloudy
Lighting: Diffuse daylight beneath cloud cover
People: 0 · No individual people are discernible at this distance.
Vehicles: two small powered boats · numerous distant ships and small craft
Objects: white boat wakes · vessel hulls · distant masts · water · clouds · low shoreline
Colors: blue · purple · gray · off-white
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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Two small powered boats cross in front of a crowded anchorage.
Opposing white wakes extend across the foreground water.
The right-hand boat nears the frame edge as the other continues left.
One boat remains prominent while the other has passed beyond the right edge.

Small Powered Boats Cross in Front of a Dense Anchorage — Clip Details

Likely Leyte, Philippines, circa 1944 home movie footage shows two small powered boats crossing open water in front of a dense anchorage. Their bright wakes stretch in opposite directions across the foreground, while numerous larger vessels fill the middle distance. An elevated wide view holds the traffic in one continuous shot with slight camera drift. Cloudy sky, soft focus and a strong blue-purple cast characterize the projected color film.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Wide shot
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 8s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800003104

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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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1944 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: Leyte, Philippines Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This circa 1944 anchorage view supports documentary requests for Pacific wartime maritime traffic, with Leyte, Philippines retained as a likely regional attribution.
Period detail: The dense grouping of ships and low powered craft is consistent with the supplied circa 1944 military context, although individual classes and markings are indistinct.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches passing craft from an elevated position, preserving an unstaged observer's view of movement through a crowded anchorage.
What appears in frame: Two low powered boats, bright wakes, numerous distant hulls, scattered masts, a low shoreline and layered clouds occupy the broad view.
Film character: Projected color film carries a blue-purple cast, soft detail, visible grain, dark specks, vertical scratches and slight framing drift.
Edit role: Use the shot as an establishing view or maritime cutaway linking shipboard details with the wider scale of an anchorage.
Historical context: The contrast between small moving craft and numerous larger vessels conveys the scale of military maritime activity without identifying a particular operation.
Research note: No faces, readable insignia or vessel names are discernible; copyright licensing remains separate from any applicable vessel, likeness or property permissions.
Research search match: The clip answers searches for circa 1944 color home movies of military anchorages, small powered boats and likely Leyte maritime traffic.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the reel's signaling lamp, landing craft and suspended cargo views, then with likely Leyte footage circa 1944 and other military anchorage scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Likely Leyte, Philippines, circa 1944: two powered boats cross before a dense anchorage, leaving bright wakes across blue-purple water. — Two powered craft cross the foreground beneath a crowded line of distant vessels.
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Powered boats travel apart across a busy anchorage, likely Leyte, Philippines, circa 1944, with long white wakes against dark water. — Bright wakes separate two moving boats from the dense background of anchored vessels.
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Likely Leyte, Philippines, circa 1944: a powered craft nears the right edge as a second boat crosses leftward before the anchorage. — The right-hand craft approaches the frame edge, trailing a broad white wake.
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A small powered boat continues left beneath a crowded fleet, likely Leyte, Philippines, circa 1944; another craft's wake exits at right. — One boat remains visible as the other craft's wake extends beyond the right edge.
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