Bombay India-1946: Colonial Building with Trees and Water

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

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Colonial Building with Trees and Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage footage captures a view of Bombay, India, featuring a prominent white classical building with columns and a contrasting brown structure beside it. The scene is framed by lush green trees and a body of water in the foreground, under a dramatic cloudy sky. The film exhibits natural grain, slight blurriness, and the characteristic dark borders of home movie footage, evoking a nostalgic mid-century urban landscape.

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: 124754862

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 documentary or educational edits needing archival home-movie views of Bombay waterfront architecture and urban landmarks.
Period detail: The footage shows mid-1940s Bombay with classical white columns, a darker multi-story building, trees, water, and a cloudy sky visible across the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint from across the water, holding on architecture and skyline rather than staged action or identifiable people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white columned building, a brown multi-story structure, waterfront, trees, cloudy sky, and dark 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, dust marks, and contact-sheet borders consistent with physical home-movie film.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief establishing insert, architectural cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition within a 1940s India sequence.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for Bombay's waterfront built environment in 1946 without confirming the specific buildings or civic function shown.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but building identification, location claims, copyright status, and property context should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 Bombay 8mm footage, vintage India architecture, waterfront city views, cloudy skyline, and colonial-era urban buildings.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1946 Bombay or India clips, then broader 1940s urban architecture and travel home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Bombay view across water toward a white columned building, trees, and a darker multi-story structure under clouds. — Waterfront view of white and brown architecture framed by trees and a cloudy sky.

1946 Bombay waterfront architecture with a white classical facade, neighboring brown building, trees, and overcast sky. — White classical facade and darker neighboring building seen from across the water.

Soft 1946 Bombay 8mm frame showing a white columned waterfront building, trees, water, and a brown structure nearby. — Soft-focus waterfront architecture with trees and water in the foreground.

1946 Bombay scene across the water with white and brown buildings, trees, heavy clouds, and visible 8mm film borders. — Distant waterfront buildings and trees beneath a heavy cloudy sky.

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