India-1946: Ship Moving Steam Smoking Flowing Flags Onboard Close Far Steamboat

Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationIndia
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Ship Moving Steam Smoking Flowing Flags Onboard Close... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a large ocean liner docked in India, its red funnels and white superstructure standing out against a hazy sky. The ship is adorned with festive bunting, suggesting a celebratory arrival or departure. Smoke billows from the stacks as the vessel remains stationary, its massive hull and multiple decks visible in the grainy, nostalgic footage. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—slight blur, film grain, and soft focus—evoking a sense of mid-century travel and maritime history. This archival clip offers authentic period footage for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124756211

Rights & Clearance

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 (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: India 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

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 8mm India travel footage for productions needing an ocean liner at dock, with funnels, smoke, bunting, and maritime departure or arrival atmosphere.
Period detail: The red funnels, white superstructure, dark hull, signal flags, and soft 8mm color may show mid-1940s passenger-ship travel in India.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds a visitor's shore-side view of the liner, shifting between a wider profile and closer views of the funnel and deck bunting.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large liner hull, red funnels, white decks, mast rigging, strings of flags, smoke haze, waterline, and soft harbor background.
Film character: The clip has soft focus, muted color, visible grain, slight exposure haze, and handheld framing consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a maritime travel insert, port transition, ship-departure cutaway, or brief memory beat within a 1940s India sequence.
Historical context: The decorated vessel and smoke from the funnels suggest public-facing passenger or ceremonial maritime activity, but the specific ship and event are not identified.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable branding are visible, but ship identity, location specifics, and copyright status should be checked separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1946 India 8mm ocean liner, vintage ship with bunting, home movie harbor footage, steamship funnels, and 1940s maritime travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 India footage, then broader 1940s travel, harbor, ocean liner, and passenger-ship material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 India 8mm frame showing a hazy wide view of a large ocean liner at dock, with red funnels and a dark hull. — Wide shore-side view of the liner with two red funnels and a long dark hull.

1946 India 8mm frame showing a closer section of the liner with signal flags strung above the decks and a red funnel. — Closer view of the liner's upper decks, bunting, mast rigging, and red funnel.

1946 India 8mm frame showing the liner's side, with a red funnel, white deck levels, and decorative flags overhead. — Side detail of the ship with deck levels, bunting, and a prominent red funnel.

1946 India 8mm frame showing a close view of the liner's funnel, upper decks, and bunting against a hazy harbor backdrop. — Close view of the liner's funnel, upper decks, and flags near the dock.

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