Bombay India-1946: Men in Boats Rowing on Bombay River

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

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Men in Boats Rowing on Bombay River — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil riverside scene in Bombay, India. Several small boats, including a traditional wooden vessel with oars, float on calm water near a grassy bank lined with trees. A few men are visible on the boats, some appearing to row or maneuver using manpower. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight blurriness, and natural color tones of the era, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century daily life and transportation along the river.

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: 124754473

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 travel, river transport, or waterfront daily-life sequences needing brief 8mm home-movie atmosphere.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-1940s small craft near a wooded riverbank, with oars, moored boats, and informal riverside use visible.
Home-movie behavior: The framing feels like a traveler or family observer filming from a distance, holding on boats and shoreline activity without staging.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, small wooden boats, oars, masts, a grassy bank, trees, and a pale riverside path or edge.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, muted color, gate edges, vertical wear marks, and slight exposure variation that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, location transition, memory beat, or visual bridge for colonial-era Bombay waterfront material.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for small-boat movement and leisure or work along a Bombay waterside area, without identifying a specific river or landmark.
Research note: No logos or identifiable faces are visible in these frames, but copyright, location, and any likeness or property questions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1940s Bombay 8mm river boats, India home movie waterfront, vintage oars and small craft, or archival travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then 1946 Bombay material, then broader India river transport or vintage waterfront scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Bombay 8mm frame showing small boats and oars near a grassy, tree-lined riverside bank. — Boats rest near a wooded riverside bank in Bombay.

Soft 8mm view of boats along a Bombay riverside, with oars projecting from a dark wooden craft. — A dark wooden boat sits among smaller craft near the bank.

1946 Bombay home-movie frame of small craft along calm water, including a boat with visible oars. — Small boats cluster along the calm riverside water.

Muted 8mm frame from Bombay showing a wooden oared boat beside other small craft near a green bank. — An oared wooden craft is framed beside other riverside boats.

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