Bombay India-1946: Grassy Park with Palm Tree and Pond

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

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Grassy Park with Palm Tree and Pond — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil park scene in Bombay, India. The view, framed by a dark border, shows a grassy field in the foreground, a small pond, and a line of lush trees under an overcast sky. A tall palm tree stands prominently on the right, with a low hedge running along the water's edge. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight blurriness, and film scratches, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The camera appears to move slowly, offering a serene glimpse of mid-century urban greenery.

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: 124754811

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s Bombay urban-greenery requests needing a brief home-movie park cutaway or establishing insert.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-1940s Bombay park landscaping, with open lawn, pond edge, hedges, mature trees, and a tall palm under an overcast sky.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor viewpoint, observing the park from a fixed or slowly shifting position without people posed for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a grassy field, small pond, low hedge, mature tree line, tall palm, cloudy sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, muted color, visible grain, scratches, and slight frame instability typical of original home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet transition, location cutaway, memory beat, or visual pause within a Bombay or travel sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for landscaped public or semi-public green space in Bombay without showing identifiable people, signs, or vehicles in these frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, and any property-related permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1946 Bombay park footage, 8mm India home movie, vintage pond and palm tree, and 1940s urban garden scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Bombay material, then broader India park, water, palm, and travel cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Bombay home-movie frame showing a lawn, pond edge, mature trees, and a tall palm under cloudy sky. — A quiet park view with open grass, water, trees, and a tall palm.

1946 Bombay park view with grass, a small pond, low hedging, and dense trees beneath an overcast sky. — The camera looks across lawn and water toward hedges and mature trees.

A soft 8mm view of a Bombay park in 1946, with open grass, pond water, hedging, and trees. — Open grass leads toward a pond and landscaped hedges below cloudy sky.

1946 Bombay home-movie frame of a landscaped park, showing lawn, pond, hedges, and a dense tree line. — A landscaped park view holds on grass, water, hedges, and trees.

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