Bombay India-1946: Two Oxen Pulling Cart at Market

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

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Two Oxen Pulling Cart at Market — Clip Details

BOMBAY INDIA-1946: Two white oxen stand harnessed to a wooden cart on a bustling street, their horns prominent against the backdrop of a shop with a sign reading 'HIGH CLASS WORK DONE HERE'. The scene captures a moment of daily life in mid-20th century India, with the vintage 8mm film exhibiting natural grain and warm, slightly faded colors. The camera remains steady, focusing on the animals and the cart in front of the building, offering a glimpse into historical urban life.

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: 124754101

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: Yes
Minors 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: This 1946 Bombay 8mm clip can support documentary or educational requests for urban street life, animal-drawn transport, and everyday commerce in mid-20th-century India.
Period detail: Visible era clues include oxen harnessed to a wooden cart, older storefront signage, street railings, and a soft 8mm color palette consistent with the provided 1946 Bombay metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot home-movie viewpoint, observing a brief street moment without staging as the cart, shopfront, and passersby share the frame.
What appears in frame: The frames show two white oxen, a wooden cart, a shop sign reading HIGH CLASS WORK DONE HERE, street railings, pedestrians, and an ornate building facade nearby.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, slight softness, warm faded color, uneven exposure, and contact-frame edge artifacts that help preserve its physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, street-life cutaway, or transition beat between broader Bombay travel footage and scenes of market or transport activity.
Historical context: The scene shows animal-drawn street transport alongside shopfronts and pedestrians, offering visual context for daily urban movement and commerce in Bombay as recorded by a home-movie camera.
Research note: People and storefront signage are visible, so copyright, likeness, trademark, and location-identification questions should be reviewed separately before commercial or sensitive use.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1940s Bombay street scene, India ox cart footage, 8mm home movie Bombay, animal-drawn cart in urban India, and vintage market street travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then with other 1946 Bombay street footage, and finally with clips of animal-drawn transport, markets, and everyday urban India.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two white oxen stand harnessed to a wooden cart on a Bombay street in 1946, with a shop sign visible behind them. — Oxen and cart pause in front of a street shop with painted signage.

A pair of oxen remain harnessed to a cart beside a Bombay storefront, with pedestrians faintly visible near the entrance. — Harnessed oxen wait beside a wooden cart on an urban street.

An ornate Bombay street facade with arched openings appears in the same 1946 home-movie sequence, with pedestrians along the sidewalk. — A nearby street facade and sidewalk activity follow the ox-cart view.

The camera holds on an ornate Bombay street building in 1946, showing arches, railings, pedestrians, and partial signage at frame edge. — Pedestrians move near an ornate street building with railings and signage.

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