India-1946: Vintage Ocean Liner Cruising with Flags and Red Funnels

Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationIndia
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Vintage Ocean Liner Cruising with Flags and Red Funnels — Clip Details

INDIA-1946: A vintage 8mm film clip captures a grand ocean liner cruising on calm waters, its white hull and dark blue waterline contrasting with the overcast sky. The ship's iconic red and black funnels stand tall, adorned with a string of festive flags fluttering in the breeze. Shot from a low angle, the footage highlights the vessel's impressive scale and classic design, with visible decks and rows of windows. The grainy, slightly faded quality of the Super 8 home movie evokes a strong sense of mid-20th century nostalgia and maritime history.

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: 124756226

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

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s documentary or museum edits needing Indian-location maritime travel footage of a large passenger liner underway or dockside on open water.
Period detail: The liner's stacked decks, red-and-dark funnels, signal flags and 8mm color stock support a mid-1940s ocean travel setting, with India supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The brief shot has a visitor or passenger viewpoint, holding on the ship's scale from a nearby low angle rather than staging an official maritime portrait.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large white liner, red-and-dark funnels, signal flags, rows of deck windows, calm dark water, pale sky and soft film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm focus, muted color, visible grain, slight exposure falloff and contact-sheet frame edges that read as original physical-film texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a maritime insert, travel transition, port-arrival cutaway or memory beat within a sequence about postwar sea transport.
Historical context: The clip visually situates passenger sea travel in the 1940s, emphasizing ship scale, decorative flags and formal liner design without identifying a vessel or voyage.
Research note: No people, logos or audible music are indicated, but vessel identity, copyright status and any property or location rights should still be checked separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1940s 8mm ocean liner footage, India vintage steamship, home movie passenger ship with flags and red funnels.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other India 1946 travel footage, and finally broader vintage ocean liner, port, shipboard or maritime transport material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1940s India home-movie frame of a large white ocean liner with a red-and-dark funnel and signal flags above calm water. — A large liner fills the frame, with signal flags strung above its decks.

Soft 8mm view of a passenger liner in India, showing deck rows, a red-and-dark funnel and signal flags overhead. — The ship is held in a low-angle view, with deck windows and flags visible.

1940s India frame showing the side of a large liner, with one full red-and-dark funnel, a second partial funnel and signal flags. — The camera catches more of the liner's length, including a second funnel at the edge.

Faded 8mm frame of the India-location liner with flags strung above, deck windows below and two red-and-dark funnels visible. — Two funnels frame the liner's upper decks as the flags continue across the sky.

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