India-1947: The Ocean Looks Very Blue Next To The Mountains In The Distance

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Year1947
Decade1940s
LocationIndia
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1947 India

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The Ocean Looks Very Blue Next To The Mountains In The... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1947, this vintage home movie captures a serene ocean view from a moving vessel, with a distant mountainous coastline visible across the water. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight blurriness, and natural color fading typical of mid-century film, with deep blue water contrasting against the hazy landmass under a pale sky. The frame is bordered by dark edges, suggesting a window or viewfinder perspective. This archival clip evokes a sense of quiet travel and historical observation, ideal for documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific visuals.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124757685

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 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 archive requests needing an Indian coastal travel view, maritime passage insert, or quiet geographic establishing shot from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The 8mm color image, rounded frame edges, soft focus, and fading may show mid-century amateur filming from a vessel window or rail, with no visible modern markers.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a traveler filming scenery during passage, holding on the blue water and distant hills rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open blue water, a hazy mountainous coastline, pale sky, dark frame borders, light film dust, and slight handheld variation.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm archival texture through soft grain, faded color, gate edges, small specks, and a steady but handmade view across the sea.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a maritime transition, coastal establishing insert, reflective travel cutaway, or memory beat within a 1940s India sequence.
Historical context: The view supports a general sense of sea travel near India in 1947, while the frames do not identify a port, landmark, vessel, or specific historical event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright, source permissions, and location identification separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1947 India 8mm ocean footage, vintage home movie coastline from ship, blue sea and distant mountains, and 1940s travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other India 1947 travel footage, then broader ocean, coastline, vessel-view, or mid-century journey material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1947 India 8mm frame showing blue water and a distant mountainous coast, seen through dark gate or window-like edges. — Distant coastal hills across blue water, viewed from a moving vessel or framed opening.

1947 India coastal travel view with a low mountainous landmass beyond the ocean, softened by 8mm color fade and grain. — Low mountain coastline appears across the horizon beyond the blue sea.

Mid-century 8mm view from India showing a distant hilly shoreline across the ocean, with visible grain and dark frame edges. — A hilly coast remains in view across the water as the camera angle shifts slightly.

1947 India 8mm frame of blue ocean and a distant mountainous coastline, with faded color, dust marks, and soft focus. — The distant coastline stays centered beyond the open water in the final sampled frame.

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