Bombay India-1946: Man Walking Through Tropical Field With Palm Trees

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

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Man Walking Through Tropical Field With Palm Trees — Clip Details

A man in a light-colored short-sleeve shirt and shorts walks across a lush green field in Bombay, India, in 1946. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures him moving toward the camera through a tropical landscape with dense palm trees and foliage. The image has a soft, grainy quality typical of vintage home movies, with natural lighting and a slightly faded color palette. The man appears relaxed, walking with a steady pace in a serene, natural setting.

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: 124754727

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 India archive requests needing home-movie footage of a man moving through a tropical field near Bombay for documentary or editorial context.
Period detail: The light short-sleeve shirt, shorts, 8mm color stock, and tropical setting may show mid-1940s leisure or travel filming in Bombay, India.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the unstaged approach toward the camera, with the man walking casually through grass as if filmed by a companion or traveler.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lone adult man, light shirt, shorts, green grass, palm-like foliage, a narrow worn path, dark frame edges, and dense trees.
Film character: The clip has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, slight fading, and handheld 8mm framing that give it physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, travel memory beat, rural landscape cutaway, or transition into a sequence about 1940s Bombay or tropical India.
Historical context: The footage offers a small-scale social view of an adult outdoors in a lush field, without enough visual evidence to identify a specific site or event.
Research note: An adult face is visible, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright status; no brands or private property are apparent in the frames.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 Bombay 8mm home movie, man walking in tropical field, palm trees India footage, and 1940s travel film landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Bombay 1946 footage, then broader 1940s India travel or tropical landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Adult man walks toward the camera through a lush field in Bombay, India, in 1946 home-movie footage. — A man approaches through a grassy tropical field with dense foliage behind him.

Adult man in shorts appears in a tropical grassy area in Bombay, India, during 1946 8mm footage. — The man pauses or slows in the field as palm-like plants frame the background.

Adult man walks toward the camera through a green field in supported 1946 Bombay home-movie footage. — The figure moves closer, with a faint path visible through the grass.

Closer 1946 Bombay frame showing an adult man in a light shirt and shorts walking through tropical grass. — The man nears the camera, filling more of the frame against the green field.

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