Colombo Ceylon-1946: Busy Street Scene With People In White And Antique Car

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationColombo, Sri Lanka
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Busy Street Scene With People In White And Antique Car — Clip Details

COLOMBO CEYLON-1946: A bustling street scene captured on 8mm film, showing pedestrians in traditional white attire walking along a busy thoroughfare. A vintage green car drives past a shop with a prominent 'A. HASHEEM JEWELLER' sign. The street is lined with colonial-style buildings, overhead power lines, and a distant crane, suggesting a port city. The footage has a warm, faded color palette and natural film grain, conveying a sense of everyday life in mid-20th century Ceylon.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124755424

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 street-life requests needing brief urban atmosphere, pedestrian movement, colonial-era shopfronts, and everyday traffic for documentary or education edits.
Period detail: Visible clues include white clothing, a vintage car, overhead utility lines, shop awnings, colonial-style buildings, and the A. Hasheem Jeweller sign in metadata-supported Colombo, Ceylon.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from street level as pedestrians cross and gather naturally, giving the clip unstaged home-movie value rather than a formal news or travelogue setup.
What appears in frame: The frames show pedestrians in white clothing, a green vintage car, a jeweller shop sign, umbrellas or hats, overhead wires, a distant crane, colonial-style facades, and street traffic.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, faded color, visible grain, slight handheld framing, and exposure shifts that preserve the physical texture of mid-century amateur film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, urban transition, street-life cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about Colombo, Ceylon, port cities, or postwar-era travel.
Historical context: The scene documents public street activity in metadata-supported 1946 Colombo, with clothing, signage, transport, and built environment offering visual context for daily urban life.
Research note: People and faces are visible and a shop sign is legible, so likeness and trademark or location-identification review may be needed separately from footage copyright clearance.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1940s Colombo street scene, Ceylon home movie, vintage 8mm urban traffic, pedestrians in white clothing, and colonial-era shopfront footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1946 Colombo or Ceylon street views, and then with broader port-city, shops, traffic, or everyday-life sequences.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Colombo, Ceylon street view with people in white clothing crossing near a green vintage car and a visible jeweller shop sign. — Pedestrians and a green car pass the A. Hasheem Jeweller storefront on a busy Colombo street.

1946 Colombo, Ceylon street scene with pedestrians gathered near a corner shop, overhead wires, and a distant vehicle or streetcar-like form. — Crowds move through a Colombo intersection beneath overhead wires and shop signs.

1946 Colombo, Ceylon street view with a blurred passerby close to camera and pedestrians gathered across the road near overhead utility lines. — A passerby crosses close to the lens as crowds gather farther down the Colombo street.

1946 Colombo, Ceylon street scene showing pedestrians crossing near colonial-style facades, overhead wires, and a silhouetted passerby in the foreground. — Pedestrians cross a broad Colombo street while a foreground figure passes close to the camera.

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