Bombay India-1946: Cargo Ship Traveling Across River with Green Shoreline

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

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Cargo Ship Traveling Across River with Green Shoreline — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a serene river view from a moving vessel in Bombay, India. The footage shows a wide, calm waterway under an overcast sky, with a distant green shoreline of trees and fields. A large white and black cargo ship appears in the middle frames, traveling across the river. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, grain, and slight color fading, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The perspective suggests a passenger's view from a window, with dark frame edges visible.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124754503

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 documentary or educational edits needing a restrained Bombay river approach, harbor-adjacent waterway view, or cargo vessel cutaway from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-1940s river traffic near Bombay, with a painted cargo ship, low green shoreline, overcast sky, and window-like dark frame edges as visible era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged value of a passenger quietly filming from a moving vessel, observing the shoreline and a passing cargo ship without posed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, a distant tree-lined shore, low fields, cloudy sky, dark window or film-frame edges, and a white-and-black cargo ship in the later frames.
Film character: Soft focus, mild color fading, visible grain, gate edges, and slight handheld or vessel motion give the shot a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a geographic establishing insert, river-travel transition, cargo-shipping cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a Bombay or India sequence.
Historical context: The view provides visual context for water transport and shoreline landscape around Bombay without identifying a specific river, dock, company, or landmark from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, archive licensing, vessel identification, and location claims should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1946 Bombay river view, 8mm India cargo ship footage, vintage home movie from moving boat, and 1940s shoreline waterway cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then with 1946 Bombay or India travel footage, then with broader vintage river, harbor, cargo ship, or moving-vessel views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Bombay home-movie frame showing a calm waterway and low green shoreline beneath an overcast sky, viewed through dark frame edges. — Wide river view with a distant green shore and cloudy sky.

1946 Bombay river view from a moving vessel, showing open water, a low green shore, and dark window-like edges in the frame. — Open water and low shoreline seen from a moving viewpoint.

1946 Bombay frame with a distant cargo ship crossing calm water, backed by a low green shoreline and cloudy sky. — Cargo ship passing across the water with shoreline behind it.

1946 Bombay home-movie still showing a cargo ship on a broad waterway with low green shore in the background. — Distant cargo ship on a broad river or harbor waterway.

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