Bombay India-1946: Tropical Landscape with Palm Trees and River

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

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Tropical Landscape with Palm Trees and River — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a lush tropical landscape in Bombay, India. The view, framed by dark edges suggesting a window or viewfinder, shows a grassy field with tall palm trees and dense green foliage under a pale sky. A calm body of water, likely a river or pond, occupies the foreground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and subtle color shifts typical of mid-century amateur film. This archival clip evokes a sense of quiet nostalgia and offers authentic period footage for historical or documentary projects.

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: 124754744

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: 1940s Bombay home-movie landscape footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing a quiet tropical establishing view.
Period detail: The footage may show a mid-1940s waterside landscape in Bombay, with tall palms, dense greenery, soft color, and an amateur 8mm vantage point as the visible era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged traveler or resident viewpoint, holding on scenery from behind dark frame edges rather than arranging a formal landscape shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm foreground water, grassy banks, tall palm trees, dense foliage, pale sky, dark frame edges, and a light-toned path or bank beyond the water.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, rounded dark borders, and gentle handheld instability as part of its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, reflective transition, travel-memory cutaway, or quiet environmental beat within a sequence about Bombay or tropical India.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for a green waterside area of Bombay without identifying a specific district, landmark, event, or property.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property or access concerns should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s Bombay 8mm landscape, India home movie palm trees, tropical river cutaway, and vintage travel footage greenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1946 Bombay clips, then with broader India travel, tropical landscape, or waterside nature material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Bombay 8mm frame showing palms, a grassy bank, dense trees, pale sky, and still foreground water. — A quiet waterside view with palms and dense foliage beyond the waterline.

1946 Bombay home-movie frame of a tropical waterside landscape with palms and dense green foliage. — Tall palms rise above a grassy bank beside calm water.

1946 Bombay 8mm view across water toward palms, a light-toned bank or path, and thick greenery. — A soft-focus home-movie view across water toward palms and foliage.

1946 Bombay frame with tall palms, layered green foliage, grassy shoreline, and still water in the foreground. — Palms and dense greenery line the far side of the water.

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