India-1974: Mughal-Style Garden with Terraced Plots and Pond

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Year1974
Decade1970s
LocationIndia
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1974 in India

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Mughal-Style Garden with Terraced Plots and Pond — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1974, this vintage home movie captures a serene Indian landscape featuring a large, ornate garden with geometrically arranged terraced plots and a central pond. The structure, likely a historic Mughal-style garden, is surrounded by greenery and a calm body of water, with a distant hillside visible. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, warm color tones, and a slightly shaky, handheld perspective, conveying a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere of a peaceful outdoor setting in India.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124350507

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1974 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: India Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s India travel, heritage architecture, garden design, or documentary cutaways needing visitor-shot home-movie views of a historic-looking landscaped site.
Period detail: The 8mm color scan, elevated tourist viewpoint, and muted 1970s palette may show period travel filming around a formal Indian garden complex.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor's observational gaze, looking down from above and drifting across the pond, terraces, pathways, trees, and distant road without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a green pond, geometric terraced planting beds, masonry walls, pale walkways, trees, dry ground, a hillside, and a distant road.
Film character: Soft 8mm grain, warm faded color, slight blur, and handheld framing give the view physical-film texture consistent with a short home-movie travel record.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, transition, architectural cutaway, or memory beat for Indian travel and heritage-garden sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a formal garden landscape and surrounding terrain in India, but the specific landmark or site identity should not be asserted from these frames alone.
Research note: No people, logos, or interiors are visible, but site identification, copyright status, and any property or location permissions still require normal archive review.
Research search match: Searchable for 1974 India 8mm home movie garden, terraced Mughal-style garden pond, vintage Indian architecture cutaway, and archival travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1974 India travel views, then broader heritage gardens, ponds, architecture, and elevated landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 India 8mm frame showing a formal terraced garden, pale paths, masonry edges, green water, trees, and a distant road. — Elevated view across a formal garden complex beside a pond.

1974 India travel footage frame with geometric planting beds, walkways, pond water, trees, and a road at the top of the view. — Geometric garden beds and surrounding water viewed from above.

1974 India 8mm frame drifting along the garden edge, with green pond water, terraced beds, trees, and exposed ground below. — The camera shifts along the pond and garden boundary.

1974 India home-movie frame showing the corner of a terraced garden, pond water, trees, paths, and dry open ground from above. — Partial garden corner and pond framed by trees and open ground.

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