Bombay India-1946: Cool Looking White Building Has A Large Lovely Garden Full Of

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

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Cool Looking White Building Has A Large Lovely Garden... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures the Victoria Memorial in Bombay, India. The iconic white marble building with its large dome and flanking towers stands prominently against a cloudy sky. In the foreground, a grassy lawn features grazing water buffalo, while palm trees and flowering bushes frame the scene. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color fading, offering authentic archival footage of colonial-era 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: 124754800

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s Bombay travel, colonial-era architecture, or garden-landscape cutaways in documentary, museum, education, or period-context edits.
Period detail: The white domed building, open lawns, palm trees, and grazing buffalo may show a formal urban garden setting in late-colonial India.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, holding briefly on the landmark and then the surrounding garden rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white domed building, cloudy sky, open lawn, water buffalo, palm trees, garden paths, and flowering shrubs.
Film character: The 8mm footage shows soft focus, muted color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing typical of mid-century home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, quiet transition, location cutaway, or memory beat for 1940s India material.
Historical context: The footage visually places formal public architecture beside maintained lawns and grazing animals, suggesting layered urban and landscape use.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are flagged, but copyright, landmark depiction, location identification, and property issues still need review.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1946 Bombay 8mm home movie, India garden landmark footage, colonial-era white domed building, and vintage travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Bombay or India footage from 1946, then with garden, landmark, and travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Bombay home-movie frame showing a white domed landmark beyond lawn, trees, and grazing buffalo. — A white domed building stands beyond the lawn while buffalo graze in the foreground.

1946 Bombay garden view with palms, lawn, path, flowering shrubs, and distant tree line. — Palm trees and flowering shrubs frame a garden lawn and path.

1946 Bombay home-movie frame focused on a garden lawn with palms, path, flowers, and distant trees. — The camera holds on the landscaped garden, with palms rising above the lawn.

1946 Bombay garden scene with palm trees, a lawn path, flowering bed, and soft 8mm color texture. — A soft 8mm view of palms, lawn, path, and flowers in the garden.

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