Bombay India-1946: Park with Palm Trees Seen from Moving Vehicle

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

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Park with Palm Trees Seen from Moving Vehicle — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil view from a moving vehicle in Bombay, India. The camera looks out onto a lush green park with a wide lawn, a winding path, and tall palm trees against a cloudy sky. Dense foliage and manicured hedges line the roadside, creating a serene tropical landscape. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight motion blur, and natural color fading, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century India for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 124754806

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: Useful for 1940s India archive requests needing a brief exterior travel-view cutaway from Bombay for documentary, museum, education, or editorial context.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-century Bombay park landscaping, with open lawns, palms, hedges, and a road seen from a moving vehicle.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged traveler perspective, observing the roadside landscape casually through a moving vehicle rather than presenting a planned scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include green lawn, curving road or path, tall palm trees, dense shade trees, clipped hedges, cloudy sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight motion blur, muted color, and gate edges that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short establishing cutaway, travel transition, memory beat, or atmospheric insert for Bombay or broader 1940s India sequences.
Historical context: The view suggests a landscaped urban or garden setting in Bombay, offering quiet visual context for mobility, leisure spaces, and tropical planting in the 1940s.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1946 Bombay 8mm footage, vintage India road view, home movie park landscape, palm trees, garden, and moving vehicle cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Bombay 1946 material, then broader vintage India travel, parks, road views, and tropical landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Bombay home-movie view of a green park lawn, palms, hedges, and cloudy sky seen from a moving vehicle. — A roadside park view with palms, clipped hedges, and open grass appears through the 8mm film frame.

1946 Bombay travel-view frame showing palms, open grass, hedge planting, and dark roadside foliage under cloudy sky. — Palm trees rise above a landscaped lawn and hedge as the vehicle passes the park edge.

1946 Bombay 8mm frame with a palm, green lawn, low hedge, shade trees, and roadside path softened by motion blur. — The moving camera catches a quiet stretch of lawn, hedge, and palms in a landscaped park setting.

1946 Bombay home-movie frame showing a landscaped lawn, single prominent palm, hedge, and tree line from a passing vehicle. — A single palm and low hedge stand against the tree line as the vehicle continues past the park.

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