Colombo Ceylon-1946: View Of Seaside City And Green Trees On A Clear Day

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationColombo, Sri Lanka
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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View Of Seaside City And Green Trees On A Clear Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage clip captures a view of Colombo, Ceylon, from across a body of water. The scene shows a coastal cityscape with low-rise buildings, some with brown tiled roofs and others painted white, nestled among green trees. A concrete seawall runs along the waterfront, with small buoys floating in the calm water. The sky is overcast with soft, diffused light, and the footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight blurriness, and a dark frame border, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The camera remains mostly static, offering a quiet, observational glimpse 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: 124755495

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 (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 requests needing a brief establishing view of Colombo, Ceylon, from across a waterfront.
Period detail: The low-rise shoreline, tiled roofs, seawall, small boats or moorings, and 8mm color stock support a mid-1940s coastal city view without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, holding across the water as a quiet observational record rather than a staged city portrait.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm harbor water, small buoys, a concrete waterfront wall, low buildings, brown tiled roofs, green trees, cloudy sky, and dark film borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight weave, muted color, and contact-frame borders that retain the physical-film character of the original reel.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing insert, geographic transition, archive cutaway, or reflective memory beat for mid-century Colombo coverage.
Historical context: The view offers visual context for Colombo's waterfront built environment in the Ceylon period, limited to what is visible from this distant shoreline angle.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are evident, but copyright status and any property or location permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1940s Colombo waterfront footage, Ceylon harbor cityscape, 8mm Sri Lanka home movie, and coastal city establishing shot.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Colombo or 1946 Ceylon material, then broader South Asian waterfront and colonial-era city views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Colombo, Ceylon waterfront seen across calm water, with low buildings, trees, buoys, and cloudy sky in a soft 8mm frame. — Waterfront buildings and trees line the far shore across calm harbor water.

Colombo shoreline from across the water, showing low-rise buildings, a seawall, trees, buoys, and overcast sky on 8mm film. — A steady view of the Colombo shoreline with low buildings behind a waterfront wall.

Mid-1940s Colombo waterfront view with tiled-roof buildings, a pale seawall, trees, and floating markers under cloudy light. — The shoreline remains in view, with clustered buildings and trees behind the seawall.

Distant Colombo waterfront on 8mm film, with calm water, buoys, low buildings, green trees, clouds, and a dark frame edge. — A final waterfront frame shows the same low shoreline and calm water with visible film edge.

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