India-1974: A Lady Making Designs on Pottery and a Garden with a Swimming Pool

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Year1974
Decade1970s
LocationIndia
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1974 in India

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A Lady Making Designs on Pottery and a Garden with a... — Clip Details

A woman in traditional Indian attire works on a large clay pot, carefully painting a floral design on its surface. The scene shifts to a lush garden with a long, rectangular swimming pool surrounded by manicured hedges and tropical plants. The footage, shot on 8mm film in 1974, captures the vibrant greenery and serene atmosphere of a private estate in India. The warm, slightly faded colors and natural film grain evoke a nostalgic, archival quality, offering a glimpse into mid-1970s domestic life and craftsmanship.

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: 124446903

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 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 archival requests needing domestic craft activity, garden-estate atmosphere, or home-movie cutaways for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The 8mm color, clothing, pottery decoration, and formal landscaped pool setting may show upper-middle-class or estate leisure surroundings in India in 1974.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie perspective, moving from a woman painting pottery to quiet views of a garden pool as if filmed by a visitor or family member.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a seated pottery painter, a large clay vessel, floral painted motifs, stone paving, a rectangular pool, hedges, tropical plants, and garden paths.
Film character: The scan shows soft 8mm grain, slight fading, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet edge density that give the footage a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief insert for craft work, a transition from domestic labor to leisure space, or a memory beat within 1970s India sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually links hand-decorated pottery with a manicured private garden setting, offering cautious social context without identifying the household or site.
Research note: A person is visible, so likeness review may be needed, and copyright, location, and any property permissions should be assessed separately before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1974 India 8mm home movie pottery painting, Indian garden swimming pool archive footage, and 1970s private estate travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with India 1974 material, and then with related themes of craft, gardens, domestic life, or leisure spaces.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1974 India home-movie footage, a woman in traditional clothing appears to paint floral motifs on a large clay vessel near stone paving. — A seated woman works on decorative pottery, applying small floral marks to a large clay pot.

A landscaped garden in India shows a long rectangular swimming pool bordered by clipped hedges, palms, shrubs, and paths in 1974 footage. — A quiet garden pool is bordered by manicured hedges and tropical planting.

The 1974 India footage shows a formal swimming pool garden with clipped hedges, paved edging, tropical plants, and surrounding trees. — The camera holds on the landscaped pool and surrounding greenery.

A 1974 India home-movie frame shows a manicured garden pool, low hedges, tropical planting, trees, and pale paving in bright daylight. — A final garden view frames the pool, clipped planting, and walkway in bright outdoor light.

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