Bombay India-1946: People Walking Along Dock With Boats Docked

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

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People Walking Along Dock With Boats Docked — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage footage captures a bustling scene in Bombay, India. A man in a white turban and traditional attire walks along a dock, carrying a bag, while a woman in a colorful sari moves nearby. The camera pans across the harbor, revealing several fishing boats with tall masts moored at the waterfront under an overcast sky. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and visible film scratches lend an authentic archival quality, evoking a sense of historical nostalgia. This authentic home movie offers a rare glimpse into daily life and maritime activity in mid-20th century Bombay.

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: 124754335

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 requests needing 1940s Bombay harbor life, dockside movement, or maritime cutaways for documentary, museum, education, or period commercial edits.
Period detail: The turbaned man, sari-clad pedestrian, wooden dock surface, and moored mast boats may show mid-1940s waterfront dress and harbor activity in Bombay.
Home-movie behavior: The short handheld view feels like a traveler observing ordinary dockside movement before turning attention across the water to boats at anchor.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pedestrians on a dock, a white turban, a sari, a carrying bag, harbor water, moored boats, tall masts, and a hazy shoreline.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, muted color, gate edges, light scratches, and handheld exposure shifts that preserve a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, harbor transition, travel-memory beat, or cutaway between street life and maritime scenes.
Historical context: The clip visually connects everyday pedestrian movement with working waterfront boats, offering social and maritime context without identifying specific people or vessels.
Research note: People are visible and may require likeness review; no logos are evident, and copyright, location, vessel, and personality rights should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Searches such as 1940s Bombay harbor, India dock pedestrians, vintage 8mm boats, turbaned man on dock, and Bombay waterfront home movie may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Bombay waterfront shots, then other 1946 Bombay or India scenes, then broader dock, harbor, fishing boat, and travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Bombay dock view with a turbaned man carrying a bag and a sari-clad woman nearby on a wooden platform. — Pedestrians move along the dock, including a man in a white turban carrying a bag.

Bombay harbor view showing several moored boats with tall masts across calm water under a hazy sky. — The camera turns toward boats moored along the harbor.

1946 Bombay harbor scene with moored mast boats across the water and a partially visible person at the left edge. — Moored boats remain in view as a partial figure passes near the frame edge.

Hazy 1946 Bombay harbor view with moored boats, tall masts, and water filling the foreground. — The harbor view holds on mast boats across the water.

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