India-1974: Dam Fully Filled With Water

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Year1974
Decade1970s
LocationIndia
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1974 in India

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Dam Fully Filled With Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1974, this vintage home movie captures a scenic view of a dam and surrounding landscape in India. The footage, framed by dark window edges, shows a tall pillar structure near a waterway with boats, lush green trees in the foreground, and a distant shoreline under an overcast sky. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and minor surface imperfections typical of Super 8 archival footage. The camera remains mostly static, offering a nostalgic glimpse of a tranquil, industrial-adjacent natural setting from the mid-1970s.

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: 124448535

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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: 1970s India home-movie footage for documentary cutaways of water infrastructure, reservoir scenery, or visitor views across an industrial-adjacent landscape.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, soft focus, and distant utility-like structures may show a mid-1970s visitor perspective on a dam or reservoir setting in India.
Home-movie behavior: The framing from behind dark window or vehicle edges gives the shot an unstaged tourist-observer quality rather than a formal survey view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a broad waterway, tree-covered foreground, distant shoreline, a tall pillar-like structure, small boats or docks, industrial rooftops, hazy sky, and dark frame edges.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm texture through visible grain, muted color, slight exposure softness, and small surface marks that support its home-movie archive character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, quiet transition, or memory beat connecting travel footage with dams, reservoirs, and landscape infrastructure.
Historical context: The view places water, vegetation, and distant built structures together, suggesting how a visitor recorded infrastructure within a broader scenic landscape.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property or infrastructure permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1974 India 8mm dam footage, vintage reservoir landscape, home movie water infrastructure, and 1970s scenic India cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1974 India travel footage, and finally with dam, reservoir, waterway, or landscape-infrastructure themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 India 8mm frame showing a hazy waterway, wooded foreground, distant buildings, and a tall pillar-like structure near the shore. — A distant dam or reservoir landscape is seen through dark frame edges, with trees in the foreground and a tall structure by the water.

1974 India home-movie frame with trees partly obscuring a reservoir or dam area, a tall vertical structure, and distant water under haze. — Trees frame a distant waterway and industrial-adjacent shoreline, with a tall pillar-like structure standing near the reservoir.

1974 India 8mm frame looking past dense trees toward a hazy reservoir area with a tall structure and distant shoreline. — A static visitor view looks through trees toward the water, with a vertical structure and shoreline visible in the distance.

1974 India 8mm frame showing a wooded foreground over a reservoir or waterway, with distant shoreline and built structures under a pale sky. — The final frame holds on trees and hazy water, with distant built structures partly visible beyond the foliage.

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