Colombo Ceylon-1946: Ship In A Busy Port With Vessels Of All Types And Sizes

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationColombo, Sri Lanka
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Ship In A Busy Port With Vessels Of All Types And Sizes — Clip Details

COLOMBO CEYLON-1946: A vintage 8mm film view from a moving vessel shows a bustling harbor. The first frame captures a warship with the hull number K619 and a flag, likely a Royal Navy vessel, docked at the port. Subsequent frames pan across the waterfront, revealing a line of colonial-era buildings and warehouses along the quay, with small boats and buoys dotting the water. The footage, shot through a window frame, exhibits the characteristic grain, color fading, and slight blur of mid-century home movie film, capturing a moment of post-war maritime activity in a historic port.

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: 124755331

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$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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1946 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s documentary or education requests needing postwar Colombo harbor, vessel-arrival, or maritime travel establishing footage.
Period detail: The clip shows 1946 Colombo waterfront views with a warship marked K619, harbor sheds, small craft, buoys, and colonial-era quay buildings visible from the water.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot viewpoint from a moving vessel, framed partly by a window or rail as the camera scans the harbor without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a naval vessel, harbor water, quay warehouses, small boats, buoys, waterfront buildings, cloudy sky, and dark frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm color scan carries soft focus, muted color, visible grain, gate edges, and slight handheld motion that situate it as mid-century home-movie footage.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief establishing insert, maritime transition, travel-memory beat, or cutaway for Colombo port and postwar sea travel sequences.
Historical context: The waterfront scene documents a busy harbor environment where naval and civilian vessels appear alongside warehouse sheds and colonial-period urban architecture.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are evident, but the naval vessel and identifiable port buildings should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Researcher searches may include 1940s Colombo harbor 8mm footage, Ceylon port from ship, postwar waterfront vessels, and home movie naval ship K619.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Colombo travel shots, then other 1946 Ceylon harbor material, then broader 1940s port, ship, and sea-travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Colombo harbor view showing a naval vessel marked K619 near the quay, seen through dark film-frame edges. — A naval vessel with hull number K619 is docked or moored in Colombo harbor.

1946 Colombo waterfront with quay sheds, larger buildings, harbor water, and small boats seen from a vessel. — The camera looks across the harbor toward sheds and waterfront buildings.

Colombo harbor in 1946 with low waterfront sheds, colonial-era buildings, small craft, and buoys across the water. — Low sheds and waterfront buildings line the quay beyond the harbor water.

1946 Colombo port view with buoys in the foreground, quay sheds, and multistory waterfront buildings beyond. — Buoys and small craft sit in front of the harbor sheds and waterfront architecture.

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