Calcutta India-1962: Woman in Swimming Cap Chatting at Backyard Pool

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

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Woman in Swimming Cap Chatting at Backyard Pool — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1962 captures a sun-drenched backyard pool scene in Calcutta, India. The footage shows a large, kidney-shaped pool with rippling blue water, surrounded by white patio chairs and a lush rosebush. A woman in a black bathing suit and blue swimming cap chats with a man by the poolside, while another person swims. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and edge damage, evoking a nostalgic, personal memory of a summer day.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: AerialExterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123725367

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing 1960s 8mm home-movie poolside leisure footage in Calcutta for documentary inserts, social-history context, or private-life atmosphere.
Period detail: The scene may show early-1960s leisure cues through the kidney-shaped pool, white patio chairs, swim cap, bathing suit, and saturated color 8mm home-movie rendering.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged backyard interaction as people linger by the pool, converse casually, and swim while the camera observes from above.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a curved swimming pool, rippling blue water, white patio chairs, poolside paving, flowering shrubs, swimmers, and a woman in a swim cap.
Film character: The scan carries dense 8mm grain, soft focus, color shift, gate marks, dust, and a handheld home-movie feel that situates the footage as personal archive material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, memory beat, or transitional insert for leisure, expatriate domestic life, summer recreation, or private social scenes.
Historical context: The footage offers a visual glimpse of poolside recreation in Calcutta in 1962 without establishing the identities, household, or social status of the people shown.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed in addition to copyright assessment; no logos or audible music are evident from the provided metadata.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 Calcutta 8mm pool scene, vintage India home movie swimming pool, woman swim cap poolside, and 1960s backyard leisure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1962 Calcutta material, then broader 1960s poolside, summer leisure, and home-movie social scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Calcutta home-movie frame showing a kidney-shaped pool, white chairs, flowering shrubs, and swimmers near the edge. — A poolside view shows swimmers near a curved backyard pool bordered by chairs and flowering shrubs.

1962 Calcutta pool scene with rippling water, swimmers by the edge, white patio chairs, and garden planting. — Swimmers gather near the pool edge as the camera looks down over the patio and garden border.

Home-movie frame from the Calcutta pool sequence showing swimmers at the lower edge and flowering shrubs beside the water. — The camera holds on the pool surface while people remain partly visible near the lower edge.

1962 Calcutta poolside frame with a woman in a blue swim cap and dark bathing suit partly visible against rippling water. — A woman in a blue swim cap appears near the edge of the pool as the water fills most of the frame.

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