Bombay India-1946: Cargo Ship At Sea

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

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Cargo Ship At Sea — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage footage captures a large cargo ship at sea, likely in Bombay, India. The vessel, with its prominent cranes and industrial structure, floats on calm waters under an overcast sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight blurriness, characteristic of mid-century home movies. The scene evokes a sense of maritime history and global trade during the post-war era, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 124754418

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: 1940s 8mm Bombay maritime footage for documentary inserts about shipping, port traffic, postwar travel, or colonial-era harbor life.
Period detail: The cargo vessel, shipboard cranes, harbor water, and dockside labor scene may show mid-1940s port activity in Bombay as recorded by a traveler or amateur filmmaker.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, alternating distant harbor views with a brief candid look down at dock workers moving cargo.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large cargo ship, calm harbor water, mast cranes, distant port structures, dockside carts, bundled cargo, and several workers.
Film character: Soft focus, visible 8mm grain, muted color, gate edges, and slight handheld instability give the scene a clear physical-film home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a short establishing cutaway, maritime transition, travel-memory beat, or port-labor insert within a 1940s India sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually connects sea transport and dock work without identifying the vessel, company, route, or specific harbor facility.
Research note: People are visible in the dockside frame, so likeness and contextual use should be reviewed separately from any film copyright assessment.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1940s Bombay harbor 8mm footage, India cargo ship home movie, vintage port labor film, and postwar maritime travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Bombay 1946 material, then with broader harbor, cargo ship, and dock work footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A distant cargo ship sits on harbor water in likely Bombay, India, in 1946 8mm home-movie footage. — Cargo ship seen across harbor water with port cranes behind it.

A large cargo vessel is filmed from a distance across harbor water, with port structures visible behind it. — Distant harbor view of a cargo vessel and industrial port skyline.

The cargo ship remains in distant view on harbor water, softened by 8mm focus and visible film borders. — Soft 8mm view of the cargo ship from across the harbor.

Several dock workers are seen around a cart and stacked cargo in likely Bombay, India, in 1946 footage. — Dockside workers handle cargo near a cart on the quay.

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