Bombay India-1946: Camera Pans Over Large White Rectangular Building

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

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Camera Pans Over Large White Rectangular Building — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a slow pan across a large white rectangular building in Bombay, India. The structure, with its grid-like facade and small circular openings, stands beside a body of water under an overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight blurriness, and natural film imperfections, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-20th century architecture and urban landscape. The camera movement reveals the building's full length, with a more ornate section visible at the far end. This archival clip is ideal for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, or nostalgic content about colonial-era 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: 124754548

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 Bombay exterior architecture requests needing a brief water-side urban cutaway or establishing detail from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-20th-century waterfront building in Bombay, with a pale grid-like facade, small circular openings, and an ornate end section beside water.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the visitor-shot pan from across the water, recording a notable large building without staging, narration, or visible public activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a long white rectangular facade, small round wall openings, grass along the bank, calm water, distant horizon, overcast sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, muted exposure, visible grain, gate shadows, minor dirt, and a slow handheld pan that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, architectural cutaway, transition across Bombay waterfront material, or quiet memory beat in a 1940s sequence.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for Bombay's built waterfront environment in 1946 without showing street life, signage, transport, or identifiable people.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the building identity and any property or copyright issues should be reviewed separately before licensing use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1946 Bombay waterfront building, 8mm India architecture, vintage home movie Bombay exterior, and colonial-era urban landscape footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Bombay 1946 exteriors, then broader India waterfront architecture or 1940s urban landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Bombay waterfront view of a large pale rectangular building with grid-like walls and an ornate end section, seen from across water. — A broad pale building stands beyond a waterway, with grass along the bank and an ornate section at one end.

A 1946 Bombay pan frame shows the long white building facade beside water, with a partial ornate structure at the far right. — The camera pan follows the long white facade, keeping the waterfront and low grassy bank in view.

The pan reaches a plainer corner of the 1946 Bombay waterfront building, with water in front and a distant low horizon behind it. — A plain corner of the large pale building fills the frame as the pan continues across the waterfront.

Final 1946 Bombay frame centers on the extended pale wall of the waterfront building, with grid panels, small openings, grass, and water. — The pan settles on the long wall, emphasizing the building's scale across the water.

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