Bombay India-1946: Life in the 1940s with Oxen and Taj Mahal Palace Hotel

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationBombay, India
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Bombay India

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Life in the 1940s with Oxen and Taj Mahal Palace Hotel — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures Bombay, India, with a distant view of the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel across the water, its iconic dome and architecture visible through a hazy lens. The scene transitions to a bustling street where two white oxen stand harnessed to a wooden cart, their horns prominent against a backdrop of a building with a sign reading 'HIGH CLASS WORK DONE HERE'. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, muted colors, and a nostalgic, documentary-style perspective of mid-20th century urban life in India.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124754087

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1725 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: reel 1
Reel-level year note: 1946
Reel-level location note: india
Date: 1946 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Bombay, India Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s Bombay city-life requests needing visitor-shot 8mm material of waterfront landmarks and street transport.
Period detail: The clip shows a hazy waterfront view with the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel identified by metadata, followed by oxen and a cart outside a work sign.
Home-movie behavior: The framing feels like a traveler briefly recording recognizable city views and everyday street details rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a waterfront skyline, domed hotel architecture, oxen, a wooden cart, a storefront sign, street frontage, gates, and muted pavement.
Film character: Soft focus, uneven exposure, muted color, visible grain, and slight handheld framing give the footage a physical 8mm home-movie character.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief Bombay establishing insert, a street-life cutaway, or a transition between landmark and daily-transport material.
Historical context: The images place animal-drawn transport beside urban shopfronts and hotel architecture, suggesting layered mid-century city life without proving broader conditions.
Research note: No people are visible, but the hotel identification and readable storefront sign should be reviewed for trademark, location, and contextual use issues.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1946 Bombay 8mm footage, Taj Mahal Palace Hotel across water, Bombay ox cart street scene, and 1940s India home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Bombay travel shots, then other 1946 India urban views, then broader animal-drawn transport or colonial-era city material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Bombay home-movie frame showing the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel area across water through haze and soft focus. — Distant waterfront view of the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel area in hazy light.

1946 Bombay street frame with two white oxen and a cart outside a storefront sign reading HIGH CLASS WORK DONE HERE. — Oxen and cart paused outside a Bombay street frontage with a readable work sign.

1946 Bombay street view with white oxen harnessed to a cart in front of a building and metal gate. — White oxen harnessed to a cart stand in front of a street-facing building.

1946 Bombay home-movie frame of oxen and a cart outside a building with the sign HIGH CLASS WORK DONE HERE. — Animal-drawn cart scene outside a shopfront with a high-mounted work sign.

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