Bombay India-1946: Colonial Buildings With Domes And Pedestrians In Open Plaza

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

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Colonial Buildings With Domes And Pedestrians In Open Plaza — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage footage captures a wide view of Bombay, India, showcasing colonial-era buildings with domed structures and arched windows. The scene features a large open plaza in the foreground with a few pedestrians walking, while trees line the right side of the frame. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics—soft focus, slight color fading, and visible grain—evoking a nostalgic, historical atmosphere. The composition highlights the city's architectural heritage and daily life during the mid-20th century.

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: 124754189

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 Bombay colonial streetscape requests needing a brief exterior plaza cutaway with pedestrians and domed civic architecture.
Period detail: The scene may show mid-20th-century Bombay through domed colonial-era buildings, open paving, sparse pedestrians, and the visitor-shot 8mm viewpoint.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged travel-film glance across an open plaza, with pedestrians crossing casually rather than posing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include domed buildings, arched facades, low foreground structures, open plaza paving, trees at right, pedestrians, and soft skyline detail.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, muted color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-frame borders that support its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing insert, location transition, architectural cutaway, or short memory beat for colonial-era Bombay material.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for public urban space in Bombay, showing formal architecture and everyday foot traffic without identifying a specific institution.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, location, and property concerns should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 Bombay 8mm footage, colonial buildings with domes, Indian plaza pedestrians, and vintage home-movie city views.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Bombay 1946 exteriors, and then with broader 1940s India travel and colonial architecture footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Bombay view across an open plaza toward domed colonial-era buildings, with trees and distant pedestrians. — Open plaza and domed buildings seen from a soft 8mm travel-film viewpoint.

Wide 1946 Bombay plaza scene with domed architecture, foreground roofs, trees, and small walking figures. — Pedestrians cross a broad plaza in front of domed colonial-era buildings.

1946 Bombay plaza view with a small roofed structure in front of domed buildings and pedestrians crossing the open ground. — A roofed foreground structure sits below domed buildings as people move through the plaza.

Wide 1946 Bombay exterior with domed colonial-era buildings, tree cover, and pedestrians scattered across the plaza. — Domed architecture and trees frame a quiet plaza with distant pedestrians.

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