Colombo Ceylon-1946: View Of Colonial Buildings Across The Water From A Ship

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationColombo, Sri Lanka
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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View Of Colonial Buildings Across The Water From A Ship — Clip Details

Shot from a moving vessel in Colombo, Ceylon, in 1946, this vintage 8mm film captures a view across the water to a colonial-era waterfront. The scene features a row of low-rise buildings with brown tiled roofs and light-colored walls, nestled along a quay. Small boats and buoys dot the water in the foreground, while ship rigging is visible in the frame's foreground, suggesting the footage was filmed from a ship. The sky is overcast, and the film exhibits natural grain and slight blurriness characteristic of home movie footage from the era.

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: 124755483

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1946 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s documentary or educational edits needing visitor-shot harbor views of Colombo during the Ceylon period.
Period detail: The tiled roofs, pale waterfront buildings, small craft, buoys, and ship rigging may show a colonial-era harbor frontage filmed from an arriving or passing vessel.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a traveler filming from shipboard, holding on the distant shore rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include water, buoys, a small boat, ship rigging, a quay, low waterfront buildings, tiled roofs, trees, and an overcast sky.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld shipboard framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, harbor cutaway, or memory beat before a Colombo or maritime sequence.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for Colombo's waterfront from the water, emphasizing built shoreline, harbor activity, and the perspective of sea travel.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are apparent, but building identification, property context, copyright status, and location claims should be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 Colombo Ceylon harbor footage, 1940s 8mm waterfront buildings, shipboard home movie, and colonial-era quay views.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1946 Colombo or Ceylon material, then with 1940s harbor, shipboard, and colonial waterfront scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Colombo harbor view from a ship, with rigging crossing the frame and low waterfront buildings beyond the water. — Shipboard view across the water toward a low built waterfront under cloudy sky.

Shipboard 8mm view of Colombo waterfront buildings across harbor water, partly framed by rigging lines. — Distant quay and waterfront buildings filmed through ship rigging.

Colombo waterfront seen from the water in 1946, with a quay, pale buildings, tiled roofs, and rigging in front. — A steady shipboard view holds on the distant harbor frontage and low buildings.

1946 shipboard view across Colombo harbor, showing rigging, scattered buoys, small craft, and waterfront buildings. — Harbor shoreline and small craft appear beneath a heavy clouded sky.

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