Bombay India-1946: Victoria Memorial With Grazing Buffalo

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

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Victoria Memorial With Grazing Buffalo — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures the Victoria Memorial in Kolkata, India, under a cloudy sky. The grand white marble building with its central dome and flanking towers stands prominently in a green park. In the foreground, water buffalo graze on the lawn, adding a rural element to the historic landmark. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural film imperfections, offering authentic archival footage of 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: 124754790

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: 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 a short landmark exterior with rural foreground activity for documentary, museum, education, or editorial use.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-20th-century visitor view of the Victoria Memorial, with its white domed facade, broad lawn, cloudy sky, and grazing water buffalo.
Home-movie behavior: The framing has a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, holding on the landmark from across the lawn rather than staging a formal architectural view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the domed memorial building, flanking towers, arched entrance, green lawn, dark trees, cloudy sky, and water buffalo grazing in front.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight gate weave, and dark frame edges that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, landmark cutaway, or reflective memory beat for 1940s India material.
Historical context: The scene places a monumental colonial-era public building in a park setting where grazing animals are visible in the foreground.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but landmark, location, copyright, and property-related uses should still be reviewed by the buyer.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1940s India 8mm footage, Victoria Memorial home movie, Kolkata landmark exterior, grazing buffalo lawn, and archival travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with India or Victoria Memorial footage from the same year, then with 1940s landmark exteriors or rural-urban travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1940s 8mm view of the Victoria Memorial across a green lawn, with cloudy sky and water buffalo in the foreground. — Victoria Memorial seen across the park lawn as water buffalo graze in front.

Visitor-shot 8mm frame of the Victoria Memorial with trees, cloudy sky, and buffalo grazing on the foreground lawn. — The domed memorial remains centered while buffalo graze near the bottom of frame.

Soft-focus 1940s India home-movie frame showing the Victoria Memorial behind a lawn with grazing water buffalo. — A grazing buffalo crosses the foreground below the memorial facade.

8mm frame of the Victoria Memorial exterior under clouds, with dark trees and buffalo grazing along the lawn. — Clouds hang over the memorial as buffalo graze in the park foreground.

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