Calcutta India-1946: Palms Blue Sky And Clouds In Tropical Garden

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationCalcutta, India
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Calcutta India

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Palms Blue Sky And Clouds In Tropical Garden — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a serene view from a moving vehicle in Calcutta, India. The first frames show a silhouetted palm tree against a deep blue sky with fluffy white clouds, evoking a tropical atmosphere. The scene transitions to lush green gardens with vibrant red flowers and dense foliage, suggesting a park or botanical setting. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, characteristic of mid-20th century amateur film. This archival clip offers authentic historical ambiance for documentaries, nostalgic content, or period pieces.

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: 124755145

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: Calcutta, 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 Calcutta 8mm garden footage suited to documentary cutaways, travel-history context, or period atmosphere without people or branded subjects.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-1940s amateur color footage of tropical planting, palms, open sky, and a manicured garden setting in Calcutta.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot, unstaged viewpoint, moving from a palm against sky to passing garden foliage as if filmed during casual travel.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a silhouetted palm, blue sky, white clouds, dense trees, flowering plants, lawn edges, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, saturated color shifts, visible grain, slight motion blur, and uneven exposure typical of home-movie film.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief establishing insert, tropical garden transition, travel-memory beat, or atmospheric cutaway within a 1940s India sequence.
Historical context: The footage provides visual context for garden landscapes and tropical vegetation in Calcutta without showing identifiable people or specific landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but copyright, location permissions, and property-related questions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1940s Calcutta home movie garden, 8mm India tropical palms, vintage India clouds and foliage, and archival botanical cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Calcutta footage, then broader vintage India garden or tropical travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Calcutta home-movie frame showing a dark palm silhouette against deep blue sky and bright white clouds. — A palm tree silhouette stands against a blue sky with large white clouds.

1946 Calcutta garden view with dense green trees, red flowering plants, lawn, and pale clouds in the sky. — A landscaped tropical garden appears with trees, lawn, and a band of red flowers.

1946 Calcutta home-movie frame showing tropical foliage, red flowers, layered trees, and bright sky above. — Layered garden plants and red flowers fill the foreground beneath tall trees.

1946 Calcutta frame of a lush garden bed with red flowers, dense trees, palm foliage, and pale clouds. — A final garden view shows red flowers and dense greenery beneath a cloudy sky.

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