Bombay India-1946: Man Crouched On Boat Deck, People Passing By Market Street

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

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Man Crouched On Boat Deck, People Passing By Market Street — Clip Details

BOMBAY INDIA-1946: A man crouches on a boat deck, working with a tool under warm sunlight, surrounded by ropes and metal fixtures. The scene shifts to a bustling street market where people in traditional clothing walk and stand near a building with a sign reading 'GULZAR DUNNAB HOTEL'. A vintage car passes by, capturing the daily life and vibrant atmosphere of mid-20th century Bombay. Shot on 8mm film, this archival footage features natural film grain, warm color tones, and a candid, observational style.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124754923

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
Audible music: No

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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 Bombay street-life or travelogue edits needing brief home-movie views of a boat deck and pedestrians near a market frontage.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-1940s urban India through traditional clothing, a vintage car, painted shop signage, and working boat-deck fixtures.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the candid visitor perspective, with a crouched worker and passing pedestrians filmed without staged action or formal posing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a crouched man on a boat deck, ropes, metal deck fittings, pedestrians, a shaded street frontage, painted hotel signage, a tree, and a passing car.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, warm color, visible grain, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that preserve the feel of original home-movie footage.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a short insert, street-life cutaway, travel transition, or memory beat within a Bombay, India, or postwar-era sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers a brief observational view of daily movement around a boat and market street in Bombay, without confirming identities or a specific event.
Research note: People and readable signage are visible, so copyright, likeness, and possible trademark or location-identification questions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1940s Bombay home movie, 8mm India street market, boat deck worker, vintage Indian street scene, and pedestrians near hotel signage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with other Bombay 1946 material, and then with broader India street-life, travel, market, or maritime work footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Bombay home-movie footage from 1946, a man crouches on a boat deck near ropes, posts, and metal fixtures. — A crouched man works or adjusts something on a sunlit boat deck.

Bombay street scene from 1946 with pedestrians moving past a shaded market or hotel frontage beneath a large tree. — Pedestrians walk and gather near a shaded frontage with readable hotel signage.

A vintage car crosses the foreground of a 1946 Bombay street view while people stand near a shaded frontage. — A car moves across the foreground, partly obscuring the street activity behind it.

Bombay, 1946 street footage showing several pedestrians near a shaded hotel or market frontage with signage overhead. — People pass and pause along the street outside a shaded frontage.

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