India-1946: Sunset over Distant Hill with Clouds

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationIndia
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Sunset over Distant Hill with Clouds — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic sky over India, with thick clouds illuminated by golden light breaking through. The scene transitions to a distant sunset, where a small red sun hovers just above the horizon, casting a warm glow across the darkening landscape. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, scratches, and film artifacts, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This atmospheric clip offers a rare glimpse of mid-20th century natural beauty, perfect for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 124755957

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: Useful for 1940s India archival requests needing atmospheric natural scenery, sky studies, sunset inserts, or reflective documentary transition material from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames show no dated signs or built environment, so the 1946 period context rests on supplied metadata rather than visible era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a patient amateur vantage, holding on clouds and a distant sinking sun as a travel or personal-memory observation rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include heavy cloud cover, shafts of sunlight, a dark horizon line, a small red sun, distant hills or landforms, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, uneven exposure, visible grain, scratches, gate edges, and warm color shifts that support its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet establishing insert, passage-of-time transition, landscape cutaway, or memory beat between more specific India travel scenes.
Historical context: The footage records a mid-century home-movie view of Indian sky and landscape, with natural light and horizon details but no visible social activity or landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, source permissions, and exact location or date claims should still be verified before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 India 8mm sunset, vintage home movie clouds, archival sky over hills, and mid-century travel footage of natural landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other India 1946 home movies, then broader 1940s 8mm sunset, clouds, hills, and travel-atmosphere footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 India home-movie frame showing thick clouds lit by low sun over a distant dark horizon. — Sunlight breaks through heavy cloud cover above a distant horizon.

Archival 8mm view in India of clouds and shafts of sunlight above a low horizon line. — Bright gaps in the cloud bank cast light above the horizon.

1946 India home-movie sunset frame with a small red sun low above a dark distant ridge. — A small red sun sits close to the horizon in a darkening sky.

Archival 8mm sunset over India, with a red sun near the horizon below dark cloud cover. — The red sun glows near the horizon beneath a dark cloud layer.

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