Colombo Ceylon-1946: White Building on Waterfront

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationColombo, Sri Lanka
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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White Building on Waterfront — Clip Details

COLOMBO CEYLON-1946: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a large white colonial-style building on the waterfront, likely a historic port or government structure. The scene unfolds from a boat, with the camera panning across the harbor, showing calm blue water, dark buoys, and small boats. The overcast gray sky casts a muted light on the architecture and surrounding docks, creating a nostalgic, archival atmosphere. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color fading, offering a rare glimpse of mid-20th century Colombo.

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: 124755336

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 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 Colombo or Ceylon waterfront sequences needing visitor-shot harbor architecture, small boats, and colonial-era urban shoreline context.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-1940s Colombo waterfront architecture, with a large white civic or port-side building, small boats, buoys, and dock structures under overcast light.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint appears to come from a moving boat, giving the clip an unstaged traveler perspective across the harbor rather than a composed architectural survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a broad white waterfront building, blue harbor water, dark buoys, small boats, dock sheds, an overcast sky, and passing rigging or rope near the lens.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, light flicker, and handheld movement that retain the physical texture of a 1940s home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, harbor transition, colonial waterfront cutaway, or reflective travel-memory beat.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for Colombo as seen from the water, emphasizing harbor access, public-facing architecture, and small-boat activity without identifying a specific landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are apparent, but building identity, property implications, and underlying footage copyright should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 Colombo Ceylon harbor footage, 8mm Sri Lanka waterfront building, colonial-era port architecture, and vintage home movie boat view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1946 Colombo or Ceylon waterfront material, and then with broader harbor, travel, or colonial-era urban shoreline footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Colombo harbor view from the water, showing a large white waterfront building, buoys, and small boats under a gray sky. — Large white waterfront building seen across Colombo harbor water.

Boat-level view of Colombo waterfront architecture, with dark buoys, small craft, dock sheds, and a large pale building along the shore. — Buoys and small boats sit before a pale waterfront building.

1946 Colombo waterfront seen from a moving boat, with a white building, dock shed, small boats, and rope or rigging crossing the frame. — Rope or rigging passes in front of the waterfront building and boats.

Soft 8mm frame of the Colombo waterfront, showing a large white building, dock shed, small boats, a buoy, and vertical rigging near the lens. — Soft-focus boat view of the waterfront building with rigging in the foreground.

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