Bombay India-1946: Cargo Ship Gliding on Calm Waters

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

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Cargo Ship Gliding on Calm Waters — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a lone cargo ship gliding across calm waters under an overcast sky. The vessel, with its white superstructure and dark hull, moves steadily through the water, leaving a gentle wake. The shoreline in the background is lined with dense green trees, suggesting a tropical or subtropical river or harbor. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight blurriness, and natural film imperfections, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic slice of mid-20th century maritime life in Bombay, India, offers a serene, historical glimpse of transportation and daily life.

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: 124754507

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 requests needing 1940s Bombay maritime atmosphere as an editorial cutaway, travel-history insert, or documentary transition around harbor movement and water transport.
Period detail: The vessel’s dark hull, white superstructure, and simple harbor setting may show mid-20th-century coastal or river traffic, supported by the 1946 Bombay metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a traveler or resident filming from shore or another vessel, holding on an everyday cargo ship without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a cargo ship, calm water, distant tree-lined shoreline, pale overcast sky, faint wake, and black 8mm frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, muted color, visible grain, gate edges, and small vertical marks give the scan a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet establishing insert, maritime cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition between Bombay street and harbor material.
Historical context: The scene suggests ordinary waterborne transport near Bombay, with no visible passengers, signage, landmarks, or identifiable port infrastructure in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in these frames, but copyright, vessel identification, and location claims should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Search matches include 1940s Bombay harbor home movie, 8mm cargo ship on calm water, colonial-era India maritime footage, and vintage boat cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Bombay material, then broader 1940s India travel or maritime transport footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Bombay home-movie frame showing a cargo ship on calm water beneath a pale sky, with shoreline in the distance. — A cargo ship moves across calm water with a low, tree-lined shore behind it.

The vessel remains in view on calm water in this 1946 Bombay frame, with a soft horizon and trees behind it. — The ship continues across the water, seen in soft focus against a wooded shore.

A mid-distance view of the cargo ship on Bombay waters, framed by 8mm gate edges and muted archival color. — The ship is centered in the frame, with calm water in the foreground and a low shoreline behind.

The 1946 Bombay harbor view holds on the cargo ship as it sits farther right in frame, with grain and light film marks visible. — The vessel shifts toward the right side of the frame as the water remains still and gray.

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