Bombay India-1946: Cargo Ship Navigating River

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

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Cargo Ship Navigating River — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a large cargo ship navigating a wide river in Bombay, India. The white-hulled vessel with a dark hull moves steadily through the water, leaving a wake behind. The overcast sky casts a muted light over the scene, with a distant treeline visible along the riverbank. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, scratches, and a soft focus, characteristic of mid-century amateur film. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century maritime transport in India.

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: 124754513

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 editorial requests needing Bombay river traffic, cargo shipping, or maritime transport seen through amateur 8mm footage.
Period detail: The vessel style, muted color, and 8mm home-movie scan may show mid-1940s maritime activity in Bombay as supported by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the ship from a fixed distant vantage point, giving the scene the value of an unstaged traveler or resident home-movie record.
What appears in frame: A large cargo vessel, pale superstructure, dark hull, river water, low riverbank, distant treeline, overcast sky, and film-frame borders are visible.
Film character: Soft focus, modest grain, uneven exposure, frame weave, scratches, and contact-sheet borders give the clip a clear physical 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a short maritime cutaway, location-establishing insert, travel transition, or quiet memory beat within a 1940s India sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually documents a cargo ship moving along a broad Bombay waterway, with no visible people, signage, or specific landmarks identifiable in the frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status, location context, and any vessel identification before use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1946 Bombay cargo ship footage, 1940s India river transport, vintage 8mm maritime home movie, and archival harbor traffic.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1946 Bombay footage, then broader 1940s India travel, river, harbor, or cargo transport scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Bombay 8mm frame showing a large cargo ship moving across a broad river under muted overcast light. — A cargo ship passes along the river with a low, tree-lined bank in the distance.

1946 Bombay home-movie frame of a cargo vessel on calm river water, seen from a distant fixed viewpoint. — The vessel continues across the river, leaving a faint wake behind it.

1946 Bombay 8mm frame showing the cargo ship slightly larger against a soft, tree-lined riverbank. — The ship appears larger in the frame as it moves along the broad waterway.

1946 Bombay archival home-movie frame of a large river cargo ship with soft focus, scratches, and overcast sky. — The cargo ship moves through the water as film scratches and frame borders remain visible.

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