Bombay India-1946: Men Pushing Wooden Cart In Manual Labor

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

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Men Pushing Wooden Cart In Manual Labor — Clip Details

BOMBAY INDIA-1946: Men in traditional dhotis and turbans laboriously push and pull a large wooden cart with massive spoked wheels through a dusty street. The 8mm film captures their physical exertion under bright sunlight, with the worn cart and rough pavement highlighting the manual labor of the era. The footage offers a raw, authentic glimpse into daily life and transportation in mid-20th century India, with visible film grain and color fading characteristic of vintage home movies.

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: 124754446

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

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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 documentary sequences needing brief visual evidence of manual street transport and labor in an urban setting.
Period detail: The wooden cart, large spoked wheels, dhotis, turbans, and rough street surface may show mid-20th-century manual hauling practices in Bombay.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from above or a raised vantage point as workers push and guide the cart, giving the moment an unstaged home-movie character.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include shirtless men, wrapped headcloths, dhotis, a heavy wooden cart, large spoked wheels, pavement, and stacked crates or boxes.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, and slight framing drift that support its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, labor cutaway, transportation detail, or transition within a sequence on Bombay street life.
Historical context: The clip visually emphasizes human effort and simple wheeled equipment without enough evidence to identify the work site, cargo, or employer.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness and contextual use should be reviewed separately from any copyright or footage licensing questions.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1940s Bombay 8mm footage, Indian street labor, wooden cart transport, manual hauling, and vintage urban home movies.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Bombay 1946 street scenes, then with broader footage of manual transport and labor.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Bombay, India, 1946, men in dhotis and headwraps work around a large wooden cart with oversized spoked wheels. — Men push and guide a heavy wooden cart through the street.

A worker in Bombay, India, 1946 appears to push or steady a heavy wooden cart as another man is partly visible nearby. — A worker braces himself against the cart while moving it along the street.

A man in a light headwrap and dhoti pushes beside a large wooden cart wheel in the 1946 Bombay street footage. — A man pushes beside the heavy cart wheel on the street.

The final frame shows the street surface with only a partial worker at the right edge, suggesting the cart has moved out of view. — The cart has moved mostly out of frame, leaving pavement and a partial figure at the edge.

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