Bombay India-1946: Slum Area With Goods Carried By Crane

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

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Slum Area With Goods Carried By Crane — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage footage captures a densely packed slum area in Bombay, India. The frame reveals a chaotic tangle of makeshift structures, weathered boats, and stacked goods, with a crane visible in the background. The image is grainy and slightly blurred, characteristic of home movie film, with muted colors and strong contrast. The camera remains mostly static, offering a raw, unfiltered glimpse into daily life in a crowded urban settlement during the post-war era.

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: 124754902

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 home-movie footage suited for documentary inserts on dense urban waterfront settlements, informal labor settings, and postwar city texture.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-1940s harbor-side structures, small boats, stacked goods, canvas covers, and crane rigging visible within a crowded Bombay working area.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot, observational perspective, holding on a busy built environment without staged action or visible posed subjects.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include weathered boats, low sheds, tarps, stacked goods, rope lines, crane cables, narrow walkways, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, heavy grain, muted color, gate edges, and slight exposure variation that mark it as original home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing cutaway, transition, or contextual insert for Bombay harbor-area life and informal settlement imagery.
Historical context: The view offers social and spatial context for crowded urban working conditions in Bombay, while avoiding claims about a named neighborhood or event.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are flagged, but copyright, location identification, and property-context review should still be handled separately.
Research search match: Useful search phrasing includes 1946 Bombay slum area, India home movie waterfront, 8mm urban settlement footage, and goods carried by crane.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Bombay 1946 material, then broader India urban waterfront, harbor labor, and informal settlement footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Bombay home-movie frame showing a dense waterside work area with small boats, covered goods, sheds, and crane rigging. — Dense waterfront structures and goods seen from above in Bombay.

1946 Bombay frame with a static view over boats, improvised structures, covered stacks, and vertical crane or mast lines. — Boats, tarps, and rigging fill the crowded waterfront view.

1946 Bombay home-movie frame showing a busy waterside settlement or work area with boats, tarps, stacked materials, and lines crossing the frame. — Crowded waterside structures with boats and covered goods.

1946 Bombay frame showing small boats and covered goods packed among low waterside structures, with rigging or crane lines at the edge. — Small boats and goods packed into a dense waterfront setting.

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