Bombay India-1946: Middle Eastern People Walking Around On The Street In Traditional Garb

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

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Middle Eastern People Walking Around On The Street In... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a woman in a red sari and a man in white traditional garb and a pink turban walking side-by-side on a paved street in Bombay, India. They pass large black barrels in the background, their figures slightly blurred by motion and the film's grain. The scene shifts to show the woman walking alone past a bollard, her colorful attire contrasting with the muted urban backdrop. The footage exhibits the characteristic color saturation and soft focus of mid-century amateur film, offering a rare glimpse into everyday life in post-colonial India.

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: 124754154

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 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 India archive requests needing brief street-life inserts, pedestrian movement, or everyday urban atmosphere from amateur 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The clothing, soft color 8mm look, paved street, bollard, and large dark barrels may show mid-1940s Bombay street details without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in unstaged pedestrian movement, with adults crossing the frame naturally as the camera observes from a fixed or lightly handheld street-side position.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include adults in traditional clothing, a red sari, a white outfit with pink turban, paved street surface, dark barrels, and a squat street bollard.
Film character: The clip has saturated 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, slight motion blur, and uneven handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, period street insert, transition, or memory beat within a sequence about urban life, travel, or clothing in 1940s India.
Historical context: The footage visually records everyday public movement in Bombay, with clothing and street fixtures offering social context while avoiding claims about identity or occasion.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness and contextual use should be reviewed separately from copyright status; no logos, minors, or private property are apparent in these frames.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1940s Bombay street footage, India home movie pedestrians, vintage 8mm sari street scene, and traditional clothing on urban pavement.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1946 Bombay material, then with broader 1940s India street-life or travel home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1946 Bombay home-movie footage, an adult in a red sari walks beside an adult in white clothing and a pink turban on pavement. — Two pedestrians in traditional clothing pass across a paved Bombay street.

The pair moves toward the edge of the frame in 1946 Bombay, with rows of dark barrels visible along the street background. — The pedestrians continue past dark barrels in the background.

A person in red traditional clothing walks alone past a dark street bollard in the 1946 Bombay 8mm street scene. — A pedestrian in red passes a dark bollard on the pavement.

A pedestrian in dark traditional clothing crosses the frame near a low bollard in the 1946 Bombay home-movie street footage. — A pedestrian in dark clothing passes the same street bollard.

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