Bombay India-1946: View Of River And Green Trees On A Clear Day

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

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View Of River And Green Trees On A Clear Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil river scene in Bombay, India. The footage shows a wide, muddy river with small boats moored along the bank, surrounded by lush green palm trees and traditional thatched-roof houses. The camera pans slowly across the landscape, revealing a distant industrial building with a tall smokestack. The image has a soft, grainy quality with faded colors typical of mid-century amateur film, evoking a sense of historical nostalgia and everyday life in post-war India.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124754531

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 edits needing a Bombay riverfront establishing view, colonial-era travel context, or a quiet landscape cutaway from home-movie source material.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-1940s Bombay riverside architecture, palm-lined banks, small boats, thatched roofs, and a distant industrial stack or tower across the water.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a traveler or resident filming from an elevated vantage point, lingering on the riverbank rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a broad muddy river, small boats, palm trees, low riverside buildings, thatched roofs, a pale multi-story structure, and a tall smokestack or tower.
Film character: The 8mm color image has soft focus, mild gate weave, faded greens and grays, visible grain, and dark contact-sheet frame borders that preserve its physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, geographic transition, riverfront cutaway, or reflective memory beat in a sequence about 1940s Bombay or South Asian travel.
Historical context: The view suggests everyday riverside activity and mixed residential or industrial waterfront space, but the exact waterway and building identities are not established from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status, property depiction, and exact location identification should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 8mm Bombay river view, vintage India waterfront home movie, 1940s palm-lined riverbank, and colonial-era Bombay travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Bombay or India river views, and then broader 1940s travel footage showing tropical waterfronts and boats.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Bombay home-movie frame showing a broad river, palms, moored boats, and low buildings along the far bank. — Riverbank with palms, boats, and low structures seen from across the water.

1946 Bombay riverside view with palm trees, small boats near the bank, and low structures under a hazy sky. — Palm-lined shoreline with boats and low riverside buildings across the river.

1946 Bombay frame showing a muddy river before a green bank with palms, thatched roofs, and a boat near the shore. — Green riverbank with palms, thatched roofs, and boats beside muddy water.

1946 Bombay riverside frame showing a pale multi-story building, arched openings, a tall stack or tower, and a boat crossing the river. — Riverside building with arches and a tall stack or tower beside the water.

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