Kolkata India-1946: Victoria Memorial with Palm Trees

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationKolkata, India
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Victoria Memorial with Palm Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage footage captures the Victoria Memorial in Bombay, India, viewed through a window frame. The white marble monument stands under a cloudy sky, with palm trees swaying in the wind. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight blurriness, and natural color tones of the era. A cow grazes in the foreground in one frame, adding to the authentic street-level perspective. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of colonial-era architecture and daily life in mid-20th century India.

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: 124754783

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip.

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: Kolkata, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1940s 8mm travel footage for productions needing a brief colonial-era Indian landmark exterior, visitor-view cutaway, or period location atmosphere.
Period detail: The white domed monument, palm trees, open grounds, and soft color 8mm stock may show a mid-1940s visitor record of a major Indian city landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The framing through dark window or vehicle edges gives the clip an unstaged visitor-shot perspective rather than a formal architectural study.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white domed memorial building, palm trees, cloudy sky, lawn, dark window-frame edges, and a grazing cow in the foreground.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm texture through soft focus, muted color, gate shadows, light dust marks, and slight handheld instability.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel-memory transition, colonial architecture cutaway, or atmospheric pause between city scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually places a monumental white civic building within open grounds and everyday street-level surroundings, without confirming any event or ceremony.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but landmark, property, copyright, and location identification should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s 8mm India landmark footage, Bombay travel home movie, white domed memorial, palm trees, cloudy sky, and cow foreground.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel India travel scenes, then with 1946 Bombay or Indian landmark exteriors, then with colonial-era architecture and street-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 8mm view identified as Bombay, India, showing a white landmark building partly framed by palms and dark window edges. — A white monument appears beyond palms beneath a cloudy sky.

1946 8mm travel frame identified as Bombay, with a white towered landmark, palms, and cloudy sky seen from a framed viewpoint. — Palm trees stand beside the white landmark in a soft, framed view.

1946 8mm frame identified as Bombay, India, showing a domed white monument across a lawn with trees and a cow in front. — A cow grazes in the foreground before the domed white monument.

Final 1946 8mm frame identified as Bombay, with the domed white landmark, open lawn, cloudy sky, and cow in the foreground. — The domed landmark fills the frame as a cow remains near the lower edge.

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