Calcutta India-1962: Elevated Wooden House With Birdhouse And Tropical Foliage

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

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Elevated Wooden House With Birdhouse And Tropical Foliage — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a rustic elevated wooden house in Calcutta, India. The structure features a raised porch with a checkered cloth hanging and potted plants lining the railing. A blue birdhouse with a conical roof stands in the yard below. The footage, marked by natural film grain and warm color tones, shows a slow upward pan, revealing the house's stilted design and surrounding tropical foliage. This authentic slice of mid-century life offers nostalgic, archival footage for documentaries, historical projects, or retro-themed content.

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: 123724887

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 India home-movie requests needing an exterior cutaway of vernacular raised housing, garden details, or domestic surroundings in Calcutta.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century domestic architecture, with a raised wooden porch, open railings, potted plants, and a small yard birdhouse visible in the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld upward pan reads as visitor-shot observation, lingering on the house structure and yard objects rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an elevated wooden house, porch railings, hanging patterned cloth, potted plants, a tree trunk, tropical foliage, yard posts, and a blue birdhouse.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, heavy grain, warm color, uneven exposure, and slight handheld drift that preserve the texture of original home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, domestic environment cutaway, travel-memory transition, or visual bridge within a Calcutta or 1960s India sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers a small-scale view of residential outdoor space and garden objects in Calcutta without identifying residents, neighborhood, or social status.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property-release needs should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Searches it may match include 1962 Calcutta home movie, 8mm India elevated house, vintage tropical garden, raised wooden porch, and blue birdhouse footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1962 Calcutta exteriors, then with other home-movie views of raised houses, gardens, or tropical domestic spaces.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Calcutta home-movie frame showing a raised wooden house, porch railings, garden pots, and a blue birdhouse below. — Raised wooden house exterior with yard pots and a blue birdhouse in front.

1962 Calcutta frame with an elevated porch, open railings, tree trunk, tropical foliage, and blue birdhouse in the yard. — Elevated porch detail with tree trunk and birdhouse beneath the railing.

1962 Calcutta home-movie view of a raised wooden porch with patterned cloth, railings, foliage, and blue birdhouse below. — Porch railings and hanging cloth above a small blue birdhouse in the yard.

1962 Calcutta frame showing the raised house porch, patterned cloth, blue birdhouse, foliage, and a stair-like structure at right. — Raised house porch and yard birdhouse, with foliage and a slanted side structure visible.

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