Bombay India-1946: Man Walking Through Tropical Garden With Lily Pads

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

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Man Walking Through Tropical Garden With Lily Pads — Clip Details

A man in a light-colored safari-style shirt and shorts walks through a lush tropical garden in Bombay, India, in 1946. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures him strolling near a pond covered in lily pads, with dense palm trees and greenery in the background. The warm, slightly faded colors and soft focus evoke a nostalgic, vintage home movie feel. The man appears relaxed, holding a small object in his hand as he moves through the serene, sun-dappled landscape.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 124754691

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s India archival requests needing a brief home-movie view of a man walking through a tropical garden setting in Bombay.
Period detail: The light safari-style shirt and shorts may show mid-1940s warm-weather travel or leisure dress, supported by the 1946 Bombay metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The man walks toward and past the camera in an informal, unstaged manner, giving the clip personal travel-film value.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in light clothing, lily-pad pond, grassy bank, dense palms, tropical shrubs, and dark 8mm frame edges.
Film character: Soft focus, saturated greens, uneven exposure, handheld framing, and visible film borders give the footage a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, travel-memory beat, or garden cutaway within sequences about Bombay, leisure, or colonial-era travel footage.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for a landscaped tropical garden in Bombay, with no identifiable landmark or public event visible in the frames.
Research note: A visible adult face may require likeness review, while copyright, location access, and any property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 Bombay India 8mm footage, tropical garden home movie, man walking by lily pads, and vintage India travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Bombay footage, then other 1946 India scenes, then broader tropical garden or travel home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1946 Bombay, a man in light safari-style clothing walks toward the camera beside a lily-pad pond and dense greenery. — Man walking along the grassy edge of a lily-pad pond in a tropical garden.

The man continues walking through the Bombay garden, with lily pads, grass, palms, and dark foliage visible behind him. — Figure moving past a lily-pad pond with tropical plants in the background.

A closer 1946 Bombay home-movie frame shows the man walking near the pond, with palms and garden shrubs filling the background. — Closer view of the man passing the pond and tropical planting.

The man passes nearer the camera in the Bombay garden, holding a small dark object with the lily-pad pond and palms behind him. — Man passing close to camera with garden pond and palms in the background.

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