Calcutta India-1962: Riding Down The River In A Canoe With Monk And Guide

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

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Riding Down The River In A Canoe With Monk And Guide — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a group of four people riding in a traditional canoe down a calm river in Calcutta, India. A man in a bright orange robe, likely a monk, sits at the front while a local guide in a conical hat paddles. Two tourists, one waving, sit behind, enjoying the scenic journey. The footage shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and a handheld perspective, evoking a nostalgic, authentic travel memory from mid-century India.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Handheld
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: 123724679

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: Supports requests for early 1960s India travel footage, river transport cutaways, and visitor-shot home-movie material for documentary or museum context.
Period detail: The 8mm color image, dress, small wooden canoe, and paddler's broad conical hat may show mid-century travel activity in Calcutta.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged home-movie value as seated passengers look around and one person waves while the canoe moves across calm water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a long canoe, four seated adults, a paddler with a broad hat, an orange-robed passenger, rippled river water, and dark frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture with visible grain, soft focus, mild color fading, gate shadow, and handheld framing from a scanned home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief travel insert, river-journey cutaway, or memory beat between broader scenes of Calcutta or India travel.
Historical context: The view documents a visitor perspective on small-boat river movement, with people sharing a narrow canoe rather than a staged tourist display.
Research note: People are visible, including identifiable faces at some distance, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright or location clearance.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1962 Calcutta river canoe, 8mm India travel home movie, monk in boat, guide paddling canoe, and vintage river transport footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Calcutta material, then broader India river travel or guided-boat footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Calcutta home-movie frame showing four adults in a long canoe, a paddler in a broad hat, and one passenger waving on the river. — Four adults ride in a long canoe as one passenger waves toward the camera.

Home-movie view in Calcutta, India, with a broad-hatted guide paddling a canoe carrying passengers across rippled water. — The guide paddles while passengers sit low in the long canoe.

1962 Calcutta river footage showing a long canoe with an orange-robed passenger near the bow and a guide paddling opposite him. — The canoe passes nearer the camera as the paddler works beside the orange-robed passenger.

Close 8mm frame from Calcutta showing an orange-robed passenger and a broad-hatted paddler seated in a long canoe on calm water. — A close view centers the orange-robed passenger and the guide paddling the canoe.

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