Calcutta India-1962: Moving View Of A Temple Building Followed By Riverside Shops

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

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Moving View Of A Temple Building Followed By Riverside Shops — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a moving view of a white temple-like building with ornate details in Calcutta, India, framed by lush green trees. The camera glides past the structure, revealing a riverside scene with traditional wooden shops and stilt houses along the water. Stacks of goods are visible under a corrugated roof, and the footage shows a bustling riverside community with boats and simple dwellings. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, faded colors, and natural motion, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century Indian life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123724864

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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: Useful for 1960s editorial sequences needing visitor-shot views of Calcutta architecture and riverside commerce on 8mm home-movie film.
Period detail: The frames show a white ornate temple-like structure and wooden waterside shops with corrugated roofs, consistent with the supplied 1962 Calcutta metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera appears to pass by from a moving vantage point, giving an unstaged traveler perspective on buildings and waterfront activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an ornate white building, leafy trees, wooden shopfronts, stacked goods, corrugated roofing, water, docks, and small riverside structures.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, faded color, exposure variation, and gate marks give the clip a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, waterfront cutaway, or memory beat between urban and riverside material.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for mid-century Calcutta as seen by a visitor, contrasting religious-style architecture with working waterfront shops.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are flagged, but copyright, location identification, and property-context review should remain separate clearance checks.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1962 Calcutta 8mm footage, vintage India riverside shops, home movie temple building, and mid-century waterfront commerce.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1962 Calcutta material, then broader vintage India waterfront, temple, market, and travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Calcutta home-movie frame showing a white ornate temple-like building partly framed by trees. — A passing view of a white temple-like building with trees in the foreground.

1962 Calcutta riverside shopfront with stacks of goods visible beneath a corrugated roof. — Stacked goods sit under the roof of a wooden shop along the water.

A Calcutta waterfront shop on wooden supports, with stacked goods and a dock platform visible in 1962 footage. — The moving camera passes a waterside shop and dock with goods arranged under shelter.

1962 Calcutta frame showing a wooden riverside shop on stilts, water in front, and small structures beyond. — A stilted shop stands along the water with posts and distant riverside buildings nearby.

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