Bombay India-1946: Panning View of Lake, Flowering Bushes and Mature Trees

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

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Panning View of Lake, Flowering Bushes and Mature Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a serene park scene in Bombay, India. The view, framed by a dark border, pans slowly across a lush green lawn, vibrant flowering bushes, and mature trees under an overcast sky. A calm lake reflects the muted light, enhancing the peaceful, nostalgic atmosphere of this classic archival footage. The film shows natural grain and slight motion blur, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the post-war era. This authentic slice of mid-20th century life offers rich visual texture for documentaries, historical projects, and 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: 124754828

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: 1940s Bombay 8mm park-and-lake footage suited to documentary cutaways, travel-history inserts, and atmospheric archive transitions.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-1940s public garden or park landscape in Bombay, with open lawn, flower beds, mature trees, and a small lake under cloudy skies.
Home-movie behavior: The slow pan and dark in-camera border give it the feel of a traveler or resident recording a quiet scenic view rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a green lawn, low flowering bushes, mature trees, a calm lake edge, cloudy sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight gate weave, and handheld panning give the 8mm footage a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, reflective transition, nature cutaway, or memory beat for Bombay travel or postwar-era sequences.
Historical context: The footage documents a landscaped outdoor leisure setting in Bombay without visible people, signage, vehicles, or identifiable events in these frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, and any property or garden permissions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s Bombay 8mm park footage, India home movie lake garden, vintage scenic pan, and flowering bushes trees archive.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Bombay material, then broader India garden, lake, and scenic travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Bombay park view with lawn, flowering bushes, mature trees, and a small lake under an overcast sky. — A landscaped park scene shows lawn, flower beds, trees, and water beneath cloudy skies.

The pan continues across a Bombay garden scene, showing open grass, low flowers, water, and tree silhouettes. — The view shifts across flower beds and a calm lake bordered by mature trees.

Soft 8mm footage shows a Bombay park landscape with grass in front, flowering bushes, trees, and lake water behind. — Flowering bushes stretch across the middle ground with lawn and water around them.

A later frame in the Bombay park pan shows lawn, flowering beds, mature trees, and a muted lake view beneath cloudy skies. — The pan settles on a broad lawn and flower beds with trees and water in the background.

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