Sri Lanka 1980s: The beach archive footage

Sri Lanka 1980s: The beach

Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting Sri Lanka in 1980. It contains stock footage of a beach with foreign tourists, probably in the city of Negombo: panoramas of the beach and Indian Ocean, typical Sri Lankan fishing boats on the shore, a tourist parasailing with a motorboat, fishermen’s boats sailing near the […]

Negombo 1980 archive footage

Negombo 1980

Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting Sri Lanka in 1980. It contains stock footage of the city of Negombo: cars parked under a colonial-style house outside town, portraits of local people in the street, boats docking on the Maha Oya River, a family selling fish along the street, tourists and locals walking […]

Negombo 1962 archive footage

Negombo 1962

Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while living in Ceylon, today’s Sri Lanka, in 1962. It contains stock footage of various places of Negombo, a city in the Western Province of the country: local people and European citizens relaxing on the beach, fishermen in traditional fishing boats, and more. The price to download the […]