Calcutta India-1962: Gondola Paddled Along River With Asian Style Buildings

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

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Gondola Paddled Along River With Asian Style Buildings — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a gondola-style boat gliding along a river in Calcutta, India. A man in a white tank top stands at the stern, paddling with a long oar, while passengers, including a person in a traditional conical hat and another in a bright yellow garment, sit in the boat. The background features traditional Asian-style buildings with tiered roofs and white walls, reflecting a bustling riverside community. The footage shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and a handheld perspective, offering a nostalgic glimpse into daily life and transportation in mid-20th century India.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123724624

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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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: Useful 1960s Calcutta 8mm footage for documentary or museum sequences needing river transport, leisure travel, or visitor-observed urban waterfront life.
Period detail: The 1962 home-movie look, wooden boat, hand paddling, conical hat, and riverside buildings with tiered roofs may show mid-century travel or daily movement along a Calcutta waterway.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged value in the passengers' relaxed posture and the standing paddler's practical movement as the camera observes from a nearby riverside or boat position.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a long wooden boat, standing paddler with oar, seated passengers, conical hat, yellow garment, calm river water, and tiered-roof riverside buildings.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate edges, and handheld framing that preserve the texture of an original home-movie reel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, travel insert, transition across water, or memory beat between broader Calcutta street and riverside material.
Historical context: The scene documents people moving by small paddle craft near formal waterfront buildings, offering visual context for river-based transport and visitor observation in 1960s Calcutta.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, location, and property considerations should be checked separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 Calcutta 8mm river boat, India home movie water transport, gondola-style paddle boat, Asian-style riverside buildings, and vintage travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Calcutta waterfront footage, then broader India travel, river transport, or mid-century boat scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Calcutta 8mm frame showing a wooden river boat with a standing paddler, seated passengers, and waterfront buildings behind them. — A paddler steers a small wooden boat carrying passengers along the river.

1962 Calcutta frame of a gondola-style wooden boat on the river, with passengers seated and a man paddling from the stern. — Passengers sit low in the boat while the paddler guides it past riverside buildings.

Home-movie frame from Calcutta in 1962 showing a wooden paddle boat, passengers, and soft-focused buildings along the opposite bank. — The boat drifts farther across frame with the paddler standing near the stern.

1962 Calcutta 8mm still with a standing paddler, seated passengers, and riverside architecture in the background. — A standing paddler guides the passenger boat through calm water near the waterfront.

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