Bombay India-1946: Landscape At The Bottom Of A Green Field At The Edge Of A River

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

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Landscape At The Bottom Of A Green Field At The Edge Of... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a serene landscape viewed from a moving vehicle, likely a train. The frame is bordered by dark window edges, with a calm body of water in the foreground and a lush green field stretching toward a distant treeline under an overcast sky. A small boat drifts across the water, adding subtle motion to the tranquil scene. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight blurriness, and natural color fading, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic 1940s travel memory offers a quiet glimpse of rural India's natural beauty.

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: 124754498

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 India travel, landscape, or transit-view sequences needing a quiet archival river-and-field cutaway from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The view may show mid-1940s Bombay-area countryside seen through a vehicle or train window, with open water, green fields, and a distant treeline.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual traveler perspective, with the camera looking outward through dark window edges rather than staging a scenic landscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a broad water surface, a narrow green riverbank, open fields, distant trees, small low boats, overcast sky, and dark window borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, muted color, visible grain, light scratches, and slight frame instability that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, river cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a 1940s India sequence.
Historical context: The clip offers a modest visual record of rural or peri-urban landscape near Bombay, emphasizing water, fields, and distance rather than identifiable landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright status and location identification should be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1940s Bombay home movie river landscape, India travel footage from train window, or vintage 8mm rural waterway view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Bombay footage, then broader India travel landscapes, rivers, fields, or transit views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Bombay-area home-movie view across water toward green fields and a distant treeline, framed by dark vehicle or train window edges. — Water and fields pass beyond a dark window frame in a soft 8mm travel view.

A muted 1946 Bombay landscape shows calm water, a narrow green bank, distant trees, and a small boat through a dark window frame. — A small boat is faintly visible across the water below distant green fields.

The 8mm frame looks across water toward Bombay-area fields and trees, with a dark central window edge suggesting a moving vehicle viewpoint. — The riverbank and fields remain steady in the distance as the window frame divides the view.

A final 1946 Bombay-area frame shows water, low fields, and a distant treeline beneath a gray sky, partially obscured by dark window borders. — Dark window borders frame a quiet water-and-field landscape in the closing shot.

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