Bombay India-1946: Cityscape with Domed Buildings and Trees

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

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Cityscape with Domed Buildings and Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage footage captures a panoramic cityscape of Bombay, India, featuring prominent colonial-era buildings with domed structures and intricate facades. The scene unfolds from a distance, with lush green trees lining the foreground and a wide open space in the lower frame. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, faded color tones, and visible grain, evoking a nostalgic, archival quality. A few indistinct figures move across the lower portion, adding subtle life to the historic urban landscape. This authentic home movie clip offers a rare glimpse into mid-20th century Bombay, perfect for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 124754204

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: 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 urban-establishing needs in documentaries, museum films, education programs, or editorial sequences requiring authentic 8mm city footage.
Period detail: The distant colonial-era facades, domed rooftops, open foreground, and soft 8mm color may show a mid-1940s Bombay civic or waterfront district from a visitor's viewpoint.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot, observational feel, holding on the skyline while small figures move indistinctly across the open lower frame.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include domed buildings, pale multi-story facades, dense trees, an open paved or waterfront area, tiny moving figures, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries soft focus, faded color, gate edges, visible grain, and slight exposure variation that read as physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, location transition, travel-memory beat, or archival cutaway before closer Bombay street material.
Historical context: The view records an urban Bombay skyline from a distance, emphasizing public architecture, trees, and open space rather than identifiable street-level activity.
Research note: People appear only as small indistinct figures, but likeness, location, copyright, and any landmark or property concerns should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1946 Bombay 8mm cityscape, vintage India skyline, colonial-era domed buildings, and home-movie urban travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Bombay or India footage from 1946, then broader 1940s cityscape and travel-establishing material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Bombay cityscape on 8mm, showing domed buildings behind trees and a wide open area with tiny indistinct figures. — Distant Bombay buildings and trees seen across an open foreground.

1946 Bombay skyline view with domed rooftops, pale facades, foreground trees, and small indistinct people in the lower frame. — Domed buildings and tree cover form a soft distant city view.

1946 Bombay view with trees across the foreground and domed urban buildings visible in soft 8mm color. — A domed structure rises beyond trees in the distant cityscape.

1946 Bombay cityscape showing domed rooftops, tree cover, pale buildings, and indistinct people crossing the lower frame. — Soft 8mm view of Bombay architecture beyond trees and open space.

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