Colombo Ceylon-1946: Vintage 8mm Film of Coastal Promenade and Rickshaw on Colonial Street

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationColombo, Sri Lanka
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Vintage 8mm Film of Coastal Promenade and Rickshaw on... — Clip Details

COLOMBO CEYLON-1946: Vintage 8mm film captures a sun-drenched coastal promenade with gentle waves lapping a stone seawall. A man pushes a traditional rickshaw along a paved road in front of colonial-era buildings with arched windows and columns. Classic automobiles, including a vintage sedan, share the street with pedestrians. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows natural film grain and slight blurriness, conveying a nostalgic, peaceful atmosphere of mid-century urban life in Sri Lanka.

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: 124755374

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 home-movie footage suited to documentary requests for colonial-era street life, coastal promenades, urban transport, and everyday public space in Ceylon.
Period detail: Visible period clues include classic automobiles, a hand-pulled rickshaw, colonial-era facades with columns and arcades, and an open seafront road that may show mid-1940s Colombo.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged traveler viewpoint, moving from a seaside promenade to street activity where pedestrians, a rickshaw puller, and cars pass through the frame naturally.
What appears in frame: The frames show a stone seawall, surf, open road, lampposts, colonial buildings, a hand-pulled rickshaw, pedestrians, and vintage cars.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, slight gate edges, muted color, and handheld framing that preserve the texture of a scanned physical home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel transition, urban-history cutaway, or quiet memory beat for Colombo or postwar Ceylon sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually contrasts coastal public space with colonial street architecture and mixed traffic, without confirming specific landmarks beyond the supplied Colombo location.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance should be assessed separately from likeness or property issues.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1940s Colombo 8mm footage, Ceylon coastal promenade home movie, colonial street rickshaw, vintage cars Sri Lanka, and postwar urban travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1946 Colombo material, and then with broader South Asian street life, coastal city, or colonial-era transport scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Colombo 8mm frame showing a seafront promenade, stone seawall, waves, an open road, and distant pedestrians near low buildings. — Seafront road and stone promenade beside the surf in Colombo.

1946 Colombo coastal street view with a stone promenade, ocean waves, pedestrians, a vintage car, and distant seafront buildings. — Vintage car and pedestrians along the Colombo seafront road.

1946 Colombo street frame showing a man with a hand-pulled rickshaw, classic cars, and colonial-era buildings with columns and arched windows. — Rickshaw puller and classic cars outside columned buildings in Colombo.

1946 Colombo street scene with a rickshaw puller, hand-pulled rickshaw, passing vintage car, and colonial building under a bright sky. — Rickshaw and vintage car pass before a colonial-era facade.

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