Calcutta India-1946: Monkey Walking Around In Cage

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationCalcutta, India
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Calcutta India

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Monkey Walking Around In Cage — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a monkey walking across a concrete enclosure in Calcutta, India. The primate moves steadily across the sunlit, textured floor, its long tail trailing behind. The footage shows signs of age with film grain, slight blurring, and dark borders typical of Super 8 home movies. A metal fence is visible in the background, suggesting a zoo or animal shelter setting. The monkey pauses briefly, turning its head toward the camera, offering a candid glimpse of wildlife in mid-20th century India. This archival clip evokes nostalgia and offers authentic historical footage for documentaries, editorial content, or vintage-themed projects.

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: 124754997

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 1725 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: reel 1
Reel-level year note: 1946
Reel-level location note: india
Date: 1946 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: Useful for 1940s India archive requests needing a brief animal, zoo, or enclosure cutaway from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-20th-century zoo or animal enclosure, with concrete paving, railings, hard sunlight, and the 1946 Calcutta location supported by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the monkey from a visitor-like distance as it walks and pauses, giving the scene an unstaged home-movie quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a monkey, long tail, concrete floor, metal railings, enclosure wall, strong shadows, dark film borders, and soft focus.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm texture through visible grain, slight blur, uneven exposure, dust marks, and dark frame edges.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, animal cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transitional detail in a sequence about zoos, Calcutta, or postwar home movies.
Historical context: The clip provides a small visual record of animal display or containment in Calcutta, without enough visual evidence to identify the exact institution.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should review copyright status and any location or animal-welfare context separately.
Research search match: Matches searches such as 1946 Calcutta monkey footage, 8mm India zoo animal, caged monkey home movie, and vintage concrete enclosure cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1946 Calcutta material, then with India zoo, animal enclosure, or vintage travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1946 Calcutta home-movie footage, a monkey walks left to right across a concrete zoo-like enclosure. — Monkey crosses a concrete enclosure in bright sunlight.

The monkey pauses near the edge of a concrete enclosure, with railings and deep shadows visible in the frame. — Monkey pauses near the wall of the enclosure.

A monkey faces partly toward the camera on the concrete floor, framed by dark 8mm borders and enclosure shadows. — Monkey turns toward the camera while standing on concrete.

The monkey stands close to metal railings in the Calcutta enclosure, with its tail extended behind it on the concrete. — Monkey stands near railings at the side of the enclosure.

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