Calcutta India-1962: Woman Steers Boat On River Past Stilt Houses

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

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Woman Steers Boat On River Past Stilt Houses — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a woman in a white shirt and dark skirt standing at the tiller of a small wooden boat on a river in Calcutta, India. The boat, covered with a corrugated metal roof, glides past stilt houses with wooden balconies. The footage shows the woman steering the vessel through calm waters, with lush green trees visible in the background under bright sunlight. The film exhibits natural grain and slight color fading typical of Super 8 footage from the era, offering a nostalgic glimpse into daily life and transportation along the waterways of 1960s Calcutta.

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: 123724926

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: Supports requests for 1960s Calcutta waterway transport, daily life, and home-movie river travel for documentary or museum edit use.
Period detail: The small wooden boat, corrugated roof covering, stilt-like riverside structures, and 8mm color stock may show mid-century urban waterway life in Calcutta.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged observation of adults working or riding a small boat as the camera watches from another moving position on the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a standing adult at the tiller, a covered wooden boat, muddy river water, raised riverside houses, balconies, rooflines, and trees.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, uneven exposure, and handheld framing from a moving vantage point.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, travel transition, or memory beat for waterways, transport, domestic river life, or 1960s Calcutta atmosphere.
Historical context: The footage visually situates everyday movement along a river or canal, with boats passing close to houses built at the water's edge.
Research note: Adults are visible but not identifiable in detail; review likeness and location context separately from copyright, with no logos or audible music indicated.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1962 Calcutta 8mm boat footage, India river transport home movie, woman steering boat, and stilt houses on water.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Calcutta 1962 waterway scenes, then broader India river transport or daily-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Calcutta 8mm frame showing an adult in a white shirt steering a small covered boat past raised riverside buildings. — Adult stands at the stern of a covered boat beside houses along the water.

Adult steers a covered wooden boat along a Calcutta waterway, with raised houses and balconies in the background. — The boat moves past shaded riverside structures as the adult holds the tiller.

Calcutta home-movie frame of an adult on a narrow boat near a larger covered boat and water-edge buildings. — A standing adult is seen from behind near a covered boat and houses at the river edge.

1962 Calcutta 8mm frame showing an adult steering or standing on a small boat near covered craft and stilt-like waterfront buildings. — The small boat passes close to a covered vessel and wooden structures along the water.

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