Bombay India-1946: Driving By The Rice Paddy Fields And Lake As People And Animals

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

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Driving By The Rice Paddy Fields And Lake As People And... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a serene rural landscape in Bombay, India. Viewed through a window frame, the footage shows expansive rice paddy fields with water-filled plots and a distant lake. Farmers tend to the fields while animals graze and move across the green terrain. The scene is imbued with the soft, grainy texture of Super 8 film, evoking a nostalgic, historical atmosphere of mid-20th century Indian agriculture.

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: 124754492

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 1940s India documentary edits needing rural travel-view footage of rice paddies, grazing animals, water plots, and a lake near Bombay.
Period detail: The 8mm framing, muted color, soft focus, and agricultural landscape may show a mid-1940s rural outskirts view rather than a staged survey scene.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a passing traveler’s observation, with fields, animals, and distant workers recorded from behind a vehicle or window frame.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include divided window framing, flooded rice plots, grassy banks, grazing animals, distant people, a lake or broad water surface, and a low tree line.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm home-movie texture with visible grain, slight softness, muted exposure, and a handheld or vehicle-based view through dark frame edges.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural establishing insert, travel transition, agricultural cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a 1940s India sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually situates agricultural land, water management, animals, and human field activity around Bombay without making claims about named farms or communities.
Research note: People appear distant and not individually identifiable, but likeness, location, and any underlying copyright questions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 8mm Bombay India rice paddy footage, rural Indian agriculture home movie, animals in fields, and lake landscape from a moving vehicle.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Bombay 1946 material, then broader rural India, agriculture, travel, lake, and field-life themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Bombay-area 8mm view through a window frame showing rice paddies, water plots, distant people, and grazing animals. — A passing view frames flooded rice fields, grassy banks, and small figures moving across the landscape.

Bombay, India home-movie frame with a vertical window divider, flooded rice plots, grassy paths, and small grazing animals. — Flooded paddy plots and grazing animals appear across the landscape, split by the dark window frame.

1940s Bombay-area rural frame showing flooded paddy sections, grassy banks, and several dark animals grazing near the water. — Several animals graze beside water-filled paddy sections as the camera passes the rural fields.

1946 Bombay 8mm frame showing a broad water surface, low shoreline, distant trees, and pale sky from a moving viewpoint. — The view opens to a broad lake or water body with a low shoreline and tree line in the distance.

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