Sri Lanka 1980s: The beach archive footage

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

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

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 […]