Colombo Ceylon-1946: Sunset From A Sailing Ship

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationColombo, Sri Lanka
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Sunset From A Sailing Ship — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a serene sunset from a sailing vessel in Colombo, Ceylon. The warm golden light of dusk glows across the horizon, illuminating scattered clouds and reflecting on the calm ocean. Silhouetted rigging lines frame the view from the ship's deck, creating a classic maritime perspective. The footage exhibits natural film grain and slight color fading, enhancing its nostalgic, archival quality. This authentic slice of mid-century travel offers a peaceful, contemplative moment at sea.

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: 124755688

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 (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 maritime travel edits needing a quiet sunset view from a sailing vessel near Colombo, Ceylon, for documentary, museum, or memory-sequence use.
Period detail: The rigging silhouettes, 8mm frame texture, and metadata-supported 1946 Colombo setting place the view in a mid-century travel home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds on the horizon from aboard ship, preserving an unstaged passenger perspective rather than a planned scenic setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a low ocean horizon, warm dusk sky, scattered clouds, silhouetted rigging lines, deck-edge darkness, and soft reflected light on the water.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, slight color fading, gate edges, and gentle exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a maritime transition, reflective cutaway, voyage insert, or quiet closing beat within a travel or colonial-era archive sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a shipboard view at dusk in the Colombo, Ceylon travel setting, without showing people, port landmarks, or identifiable vessels.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright status, collection provenance, and any project-specific location context.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1946 Colombo Ceylon 8mm sunset, sailing ship horizon, vintage ocean travel footage, and mid-century home movie sea view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Colombo or Ceylon travel material, then broader sailing, ocean, sunset, or voyage footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Colombo, Ceylon home-movie frame showing a dusk ocean horizon through dark sailing rigging. — Dusk horizon and scattered clouds seen from a sailing vessel.

Shipboard view near Colombo in 1946, with rigging silhouetted against a warm sunset over the sea. — Rigging lines frame a golden evening sky above the ocean.

8mm home-movie still of a Colombo-area sea sunset, viewed past dark rigging from a sailing vessel. — A low sea horizon sits beneath fading light and silhouetted lines.

Final 1946 shipboard sunset frame near Colombo, with soft 8mm color and rigging over the sea. — The scene holds on rigging, sea, and a fading sunset sky.

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