Bombay India-1946: Old Riverbank Homes and Temple

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

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Old Riverbank Homes and Temple — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a quiet riverside village in Bombay, India. The footage opens on a weathered white temple with ornate domes and spires, surrounded by lush palm trees. The scene then shifts to a tranquil riverbank where modest homes with corrugated roofs line the water's edge under an overcast sky. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and soft focus evoke a nostalgic, archival feel, offering a rare glimpse into mid-20th century Indian life and architecture.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124754590

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 home-movie requests needing riverside architecture, temple exteriors, and village-edge establishing material for documentary or education edits.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-20th-century riverbank dwellings, corrugated roofs, palm trees, and a weathered temple exterior consistent with the supplied 1946 Bombay metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective, lingering from a distant viewpoint on temple architecture and homes across the water rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white domed temple, palm trees, river water, low riverbank homes, corrugated roofs, grass, overcast sky, and small distant people.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, riverbank transition, architectural cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a 1940s India sequence.
Historical context: The views provide visual context for riverside settlement patterns and religious architecture in the Bombay area without identifying a specific landmark.
Research note: Distant people and religious architecture are visible, so copyright status should be reviewed separately from likeness, property, and location-identification concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 Bombay 8mm home movie, vintage India riverbank homes, old temple exterior, palm-lined riverside village, and colonial-era India footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Bombay material, then broader India riverbank, temple exterior, or village architecture footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Bombay home-movie frame showing a weathered white temple exterior with domes, spires, and palms in the background. — White domed temple exterior framed from a distance with trees behind it.

1946 Bombay riverside view with low homes, palm trees, and a small boat-like shape along the waterline. — Low riverside buildings sit beneath palms across calm water.

1946 Bombay home-movie frame of modest riverbank homes, palms, grass, and small distant people near the shoreline. — Riverside homes and small distant figures line the water's edge.

1946 Bombay riverside scene with clustered homes, palms, a grassy bank, and distant people beside the water. — Homes, palms, and distant figures appear along the riverbank.

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