Colombo Ceylon-1946: Waves Roll In And Break On Shore On Sunny Day Some Clouds

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationColombo, Sri Lanka
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Waves Roll In And Break On Shore On Sunny Day Some Clouds — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures waves rolling in and breaking on a sandy shore under a partly cloudy sky. The footage, framed by dark borders typical of Super 8 projection, shows a tranquil coastal scene with gentle surf and a distant horizon. The color palette features faded blues, greens, and whites, with visible film grain and slight scratches that enhance its authentic archival quality. This nostalgic clip offers a rare glimpse of Colombo, Ceylon's coastline during the mid-20th century, perfect for historical documentaries, editorial content, or retro-themed projects.

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: 124755355

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 archive requests needing Colombo or Ceylon coastal atmosphere, sea-state inserts, or non-urban travel context from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames show only surf, horizon, clouds, and film-frame borders, so period detail comes mainly from the 1946 8mm source metadata rather than visible built features.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot, observational feel, with the camera held on breaking waves as a simple record of place and weather rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rolling surf, white foam, a sandy or shallow shoreline, a straight ocean horizon, broken clouds, dark film borders, and small bits of film dust.
Film character: The scan shows soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, gate edges, and small scratches that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a coastal establishing insert, a quiet transition, a travel-memory beat, or a cutaway between Colombo or Ceylon sequences.
Historical context: As visual context, the clip records a mid-20th-century shoreline view with no people, vehicles, buildings, or identifiable landmarks visible in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, source licensing, and location identification should still be checked for the intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1946 Ceylon beach footage, Colombo coastline 8mm, vintage surf home movie, 1940s ocean waves, and Sri Lanka archival shore scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Colombo or Ceylon material, then broader vintage tropical coast and ocean-wave footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 8mm home-movie frame of surf rolling toward a Colombo, Ceylon shoreline under broken clouds, with dark gate edges visible. — Waves roll toward shore under a partly cloudy sky.

1946 Colombo, Ceylon coastal view with white surf lines, blue-green water, cloudy sky, and visible 8mm frame borders. — Surf breaks in bands across the shoreline view.

Soft 8mm frame of Colombo, Ceylon surf, with foamy nearshore water, a level horizon, clouds, and dark projected-frame borders. — Foamy shore water fills the foreground below the horizon.

1946 8mm coastal frame from Colombo, Ceylon showing breaking surf, low horizon, clouds, and visible film dust near the center. — Breaking waves continue beneath a cloudy coastal sky.

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