India-1946: Large Cargo Vessel on Calm Waters

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationIndia
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Large Cargo Vessel on Calm Waters — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage footage captures a large cargo ship navigating calm waters near an unknown coastal area in India. The vessel, with its dark hull and red waterline, rocks gently on gentle ripples as it moves through the water. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and soft focus are characteristic of home movie film from the era. The camera remains steady, offering a side and front view of the ship against a distant shoreline. This archival clip evokes a sense of mid-20th century maritime travel and transportation history.

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: 124755914

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 1725 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: reel 1
Reel-level year note: 1946
Reel-level location note: india
Date: 1946 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: India Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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 India maritime footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing a brief home-movie view of a large vessel near shore.
Period detail: The dark hull, red lower waterline, simple superstructure, and soft color 8mm rendering may show mid-20th-century cargo or passenger shipping.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot or traveler-shot perspective, watching the vessel from nearby water without staged action or visible crew interaction.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large dark vessel, red hull band, calm rippled water, distant green shoreline, pale sky, deck structures, and a nearby boat edge.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight fade, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet framing that give the footage its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime insert, travel transition, transport cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a 1940s India sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually situates sea transport near an Indian coastline without identifying the port, ship name, company, or specific voyage.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, but ship identity, location, copyright status, and any property or maritime rights should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1940s India 8mm ship footage, vintage cargo vessel at sea, home movie coastal shipping, and archival maritime transport.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then with other 1946 India coastal or travel footage, then with broader mid-century shipping and sea transport material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 India 8mm frame showing a large dark ship with a red lower hull band on calm water near a shoreline. — A large vessel faces the camera as it moves or rocks on rippled coastal water.

1946 India 8mm frame of a large vessel angled toward the camera, with low shoreline hills in the background. — The vessel is seen from the front quarter, its dark bow rising above calm ripples.

1946 India 8mm frame showing the vessel close to camera, with a dark hull, red lower band, and coastal background. — A close front view emphasizes the ship's hull as it rocks gently on the water.

1946 India 8mm frame looking past a nearby boat edge toward rippled water and a partial vessel or dockside form. — The camera turns toward the water, catching the edge of the filming boat and a partial dark structure.

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