Calcutta India-1962: Woman in Blue Cap Swimming Laps in Backyard Pool

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

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Woman in Blue Cap Swimming Laps in Backyard Pool — Clip Details

A woman in a blue bathing cap swims the crawl stroke in a backyard pool, captured on 8mm film in 1962. The footage shows her moving through the water with steady laps, surrounded by a concrete deck and scattered red flowers. The image has a distinct vintage quality with film grain, slight color fading, and a soft focus typical of home movies from the era. The scene evokes a sense of leisure and nostalgia, offering authentic archival footage of everyday recreation.

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: 123725341

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 1960s archival requests for leisure, swimming, expatriate or domestic recreation, and everyday home-movie life in Calcutta, India.
Period detail: The concrete pool edge, bathing caps, soft color, and 8mm home-movie texture may show early-1960s private recreation rather than a formal sports setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged view of a woman swimming steady crawl strokes while the camera observes from poolside.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a curved swimming pool, blue-green water, a woman in a bathing cap, red floating flowers or objects, concrete decking, and soft film borders.
Film character: The footage has visible grain, color fading, soft focus, gate shadows, and slight handheld framing consistent with scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, leisure cutaway, memory beat, or transition within sequences about recreation, private life, or travel-era domestic scenes.
Historical context: The scene offers visual evidence of poolside leisure in Calcutta in 1962, limited to the visible swimming activity and home-movie viewpoint.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are visible, and copyright clearance is separate from privacy, likeness, or property considerations.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 Calcutta home movie swimming pool, woman bathing cap crawl stroke, vintage 8mm India recreation, and 1960s leisure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then with 1962 Calcutta footage, and then with broader 1960s swimming, leisure, or home recreation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1962 Calcutta home-movie footage, a woman in a bathing cap swims crawl stroke through a curved backyard-style pool. — A swimmer moves through the pool as red objects float nearby.

The woman continues a crawl stroke in the Calcutta pool, partly blurred by motion and soft 8mm focus. — The swimmer advances through rippled water near the pool edge.

A home-movie frame shows the woman mid-lap in a 1962 Calcutta swimming pool, with grain and color fading visible. — The swimmer is seen mid-lap in the softly focused pool frame.

The swimmer nears the edge of the frame in 1962 Calcutta pool footage, with scratches, grain, and dark gate edges visible. — The swimmer passes through a darker, grainy pool frame near the right edge.

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