Colombo Ceylon-1946: Moving View From A Boat Near Rowboats And A Clock Tower Building

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationColombo, Sri Lanka
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Moving View From A Boat Near Rowboats And A Clock Tower... — Clip Details

Shot from a moving boat in Colombo, Ceylon, in 1946, this vintage 8mm film captures a serene waterfront view. The camera pans across calm waters dotted with small rowboats and buoys, revealing a prominent white colonial-style building with a clock tower and a long pier with covered docks. The footage, viewed through a window frame, shows subtle film grain and slight blur, characteristic of home movie footage from the era. The scene evokes a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere of mid-20th century port life.

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: 124755342

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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

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 Colombo waterfront home-movie footage suited to documentary inserts on port travel, colonial-era city views, or maritime approaches in Ceylon.
Period detail: The white clock-tower building, covered pier structures, small boats, and 8mm color stock may show mid-1940s Colombo harbor frontage from a passenger or tour boat.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot boat perspective, with the waterfront drifting past through window or rigging lines rather than a staged establishing shot.
What appears in frame: Visible details include harbor water, rowboats, buoys, a white clock-tower building, covered docks, pier activity, rooflines, and dark window or boat framing.
Film character: Soft focus, muted color, gate edges, handheld movement, and visible grain give the scene the tactile texture of original 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: Editors can use this as a brief maritime cutaway, arrival transition, travel-memory beat, or establishing insert for Colombo and Ceylon-era sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually places everyday harbor movement beside colonial-style waterfront architecture without proving a specific event or named landmark.
Research note: People appear small in the dock area, so copyright, likeness, location, and property context should be reviewed separately before publication.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1946 Colombo Ceylon waterfront, 8mm harbor boat view, clock tower building by docks, and vintage Sri Lanka port footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1946 Colombo material, then with broader harbor, boat travel, and South Asian port-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Colombo harbor view with a white clock-tower building, covered docks, small boats, and dark boat framing in the foreground. — Clock-tower waterfront building and boats viewed from across the harbor.

Moving 8mm view across Colombo waterfront docks, with a clock-tower building partly framed by dark vertical boat structures. — Harborfront docks and clock-tower building pass behind boat framing.

Colombo harbor frontage in 1946, showing covered pier structures, rooflines, buoys, small boats, and a partial boat rail in the foreground. — Covered waterfront structures and small boats seen from the moving boat.

End frame of the 1946 Colombo boat view, with harbor water, covered dock buildings, buoys, and a dark passenger silhouette at the right edge. — Waterfront docks and buoys pass behind a dark foreground silhouette.

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