Calcutta India-1946: Pink Ibises At A Park

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

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Pink Ibises At A Park — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures two pink ibises at a park in Calcutta, India. The birds, with their distinctive long curved beaks and pale pink plumage, stand near a water basin on a paved surface. One ibis walks slowly while the other lowers its head, possibly drinking or foraging. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic soft focus of mid-century amateur cinematography. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse of wildlife in a colonial-era Indian urban setting, evoking nostalgia and historical curiosity.

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: 124755133

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 documentary or museum edits needing a brief wildlife cutaway from Calcutta home-movie footage.
Period detail: The clip may show a paved park or zoological setting, with a simple water basin and soft 8mm color typical of mid-century amateur filming.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the birds from a visitor's viewpoint, letting their slow walking and head-lowering behavior play without staging.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two pale pink ibises, long curved bills, a round water basin, paved ground, shallow water, shadows, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries fine grain, soft focus, mild color fading, gate weave, and exposure variation consistent with original home-movie film.
Edit role: Editors can use this as a short insert, wildlife cutaway, travel-memory beat, or quiet transition within sequences about Calcutta or urban park life.
Historical context: As supported by the metadata, the footage places exotic birdlife within a Calcutta park setting during the 1940s without showing people or identifying landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any venue or animal-display context separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1946 Calcutta 8mm wildlife footage, pink ibises in park, vintage India home movie birds, and colonial-era urban animal cutaways.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Calcutta 1946 material, then vintage India park, zoo, bird, and urban wildlife footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Calcutta 8mm frame showing two pale pink ibises on a paved park surface beside water, with one bird standing and another partly foregrounded. — Two pink ibises stand near a paved water edge, one with its long bill lowered.

1946 Calcutta home-movie frame with a pink ibis standing near a round water basin and a second ibis cropped in the foreground. — A standing ibis pauses beside a round basin as another bird moves through the foreground.

1946 Calcutta 8mm frame showing two pink ibises close together near a round basin, with the foreground bird bending low. — The foreground ibis lowers its head while another stands near the basin behind it.

1946 Calcutta home-movie frame with one pink ibis crossing the foreground while another stands near a round water basin. — One ibis crosses the lower frame as the second stands beside the basin.

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