India-1947: Passenger Ship Docked at Port with Bridge in Foreground

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Year1947
Decade1940s
LocationIndia
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1947 India

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Passenger Ship Docked at Port with Bridge in Foreground — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1947, this vintage home movie captures a large passenger ship docked at a port in India. The vessel, with its white superstructure and dark hull, sits alongside a wooden pier under a hazy sky. A bridge spans the water in the foreground, with indistinct figures visible on its deck. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight camera shake, conveying a nostalgic, archival feel of mid-century maritime life.

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: 124757602

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1729 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: raja daughter dancing
Reel-level year note: 1947
Reel-level location note: india
Date: 1947 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 editorial or documentary requests needing Indian port, passenger ship, or maritime transportation atmosphere from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The large dark-hulled passenger vessel, white superstructure, pier, and low bridge may show mid-20th-century port infrastructure in India.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, observing the docked ship from across a bridge with small figures passing through the foreground.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a docked passenger ship, white upper decks, dark hull, cranes or masts, waterfront piers, bridge railings, water, and small distant people.
Film character: Soft 8mm color, visible grain, gate edges, fading, and slight handheld movement give the shot a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief maritime insert, location-establishing cutaway, travel transition, or memory beat within a 1940s India sequence.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for port life and passenger shipping in India without identifying the vessel, port, or occasion from the frames alone.
Research note: People are distant and indistinct, with no visible logos, but likeness, vessel identity, location, and underlying film copyright should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Researcher searches might include 1947 India port 8mm footage, passenger ship docked in India, vintage harbor bridge, or 1940s home movie maritime travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other India 1947 travel footage, then broader 1940s port, ship, bridge, and waterfront scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A dark-hulled passenger ship with white upper decks sits at an Indian port in 1947, seen beyond a bridge in soft 8mm color. — Passenger ship docked behind a bridge at the port.

The docked ship remains framed across the water, with a bridge in the foreground and port structures behind it in 1947 India footage. — Docked vessel seen across a bridge and harbor water.

A closer view of the ship's dark hull and white deck levels appears beyond the bridge, with port equipment and water visible in India. — Ship hull and upper decks viewed from across the bridge.

The ship is partly obscured by the foreground bridge, where small distant people are visible near the water at an Indian port in 1947. — Distant people and bridge in front of the docked ship.

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