Calcutta India-1962: Workers Harvesting in Flooded Field in Calcutta

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationCalcutta, India
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 in Calcutta India

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Workers Harvesting in Flooded Field in Calcutta — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this archival footage captures a line of workers in Calcutta, India, wading waist-deep in a flooded field. Dressed in simple clothing and conical hats, they bend at the waist, harvesting or tending to crops in the water. The scene unfolds under an overcast sky, with power poles and distant fields visible in the background. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film evokes a strong sense of historical authenticity and rural labor. This raw, unedited home movie offers a poignant glimpse into agricultural life in mid-20th century India.

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: 123724592

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 1399 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: feb
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: india,calcuta,bengali
Date: 1962 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: Calcutta, 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: 1960s 8mm footage from Calcutta showing people working waist-deep in flooded agricultural land for documentary or educational edits about rural labor and waterlogged fields.
Period detail: The conical hats, simple work clothing, wooden utility poles, open fields, and color 8mm texture may show mid-20th-century agricultural conditions near Calcutta.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from a distance as workers bend and move in a line, preserving an unstaged observer's view of field labor rather than a posed scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include waist-deep workers, conical hats, flooded field water, grassy banks, wooden power poles, distant flat farmland, and an overcast sky.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, mild fading, gate edges, and handheld framing that read as original home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, rural labor cutaway, environmental transition, or memory beat within a sequence on agriculture or flooding.
Historical context: The scene visually connects manual field work with flooded land and basic rural infrastructure, without identifying the crop or reason for the water level.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from depicted-person rights.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1962 Calcutta 8mm footage, India flooded field workers, rural agriculture home movie, and people wading in water while working.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Calcutta or India 1962 material, then broader archive clips of agricultural labor and flooded fields.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Calcutta home-movie frame showing distant workers waist-deep in water across a flooded field with utility poles and open land behind them. — Workers move through a flooded field, some bending toward the water while utility poles cross the rural background.

Distant 1962 Calcutta footage frame of workers in hats standing waist-deep in flooded agricultural land near a utility pole and low fields. — A line of workers continues across the flooded field, partly obscured by distance and the 8mm frame edge.

1962 Calcutta archival frame showing multiple workers bending in a flooded field, with a utility pole, grassy banks, and distant farmland visible. — Several workers bend toward the water as the camera frames the flooded field from a distant home-movie viewpoint.

Final 1962 Calcutta frame with workers spaced across a flooded field, some bent at the waist, under a muted sky with rural poles behind them. — Workers remain spread across the waterlogged field, framed by flat rural land and a tall utility pole.

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