Calcutta India-1946: Monkey Walking and Searching for Food in Enclosure

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

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Monkey Walking and Searching for Food in Enclosure — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a young monkey in Calcutta, India, exploring a concrete enclosure with a metal fence. The primate walks cautiously along a sunlit path, its light brown fur and long tail visible as it pauses to look around. The footage shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and a handheld camera perspective, offering a rare glimpse of wildlife in a colonial-era urban setting. The monkey’s curious behavior and the period-specific visuals evoke a sense of historical nostalgia and archival charm.

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: 124755004

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 documentary inserts needing brief animal or zoo-like enclosure footage from an 8mm home-movie source.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-1940s urban animal enclosure, with concrete paving, metal railings, and a handheld visitor viewpoint.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual observer perspective as the camera follows a monkey moving and pausing in an unstaged enclosure setting.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a young monkey, long tail, concrete walkway, metal fence, sunlit paving, shadows, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, color fading, uneven exposure, and handheld framing consistent with home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, location texture, animal behavior insert, or quiet memory beat within a 1940s India sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers a visitor-level glimpse of animal captivity or enclosure viewing in Calcutta without identifying a specific institution or landmark.
Research note: No people, brands, or audible music are flagged, but copyright, location permissions, and animal-enclosure context should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1946 Calcutta monkey 8mm, 1940s India animal enclosure, vintage home movie monkey, and archival primate footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1946 Calcutta material, then broader 1940s India or vintage animal-enclosure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A monkey walks along a concrete enclosure path beside metal railings in 1946 Calcutta home-movie footage. — Monkey moving cautiously beside the enclosure fence.

A monkey faces the handheld camera on a paved enclosure floor in the Calcutta 8mm footage. — Monkey pauses and looks toward the camera.

The monkey appears closer to the lens, partly shadowed, on the concrete enclosure surface. — Closer view of the monkey within the enclosure.

The monkey crouches or sits on the paved enclosure floor, partly in shadow, in the 1946 Calcutta footage. — Monkey crouching near the end of the short clip.

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