India-1946: A Person Watching The Dates And Highlighting The Calendar Sheets

Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationIndia
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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A Person Watching The Dates And Highlighting The... — Clip Details

A close-up shot from an 8mm home movie captures a hand pointing to and circling dates on a 1946 calendar, transitioning from July to August. The grainy, slightly faded footage shows a person's fingers interacting with the paper, highlighting specific days. The calendar's red and black print is visible against a dark, textured background, likely straw or hay, suggesting a rural or outdoor setting. This authentic, unedited home movie moment evokes a sense of personal history and daily life in mid-20th century India.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124756084

Rights & Clearance

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 1725 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: reel 1
Reel-level year note: 1946
Reel-level location note: india
Date: 1946 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: India Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s India documentary requests needing a dated home-movie insert, calendar cutaway, or visual marker for personal chronology.
Period detail: The visible July and August 1946 calendar pages provide a strong period clue, while the surrounding straw-like surface may suggest an outdoor or rural setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged hand interaction as someone points, circles, and turns calendar pages to mark time in a personal record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include 1946 calendar sheets, July and August month headings, circled dates, hands and fingers, red and black numerals, and a dark straw-like background.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, uneven exposure, and slight frame instability consistent with mid-century home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an insert, date transition, diary-like memory beat, or quiet cutaway linking events across July and August 1946.
Historical context: The footage offers a small domestic record of timekeeping in India without showing a wider place, named event, or identifiable public setting.
Research note: Human hands are visible, so likeness risk appears limited but should still be reviewed separately from copyright and any location or property concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1946 India calendar home movie, 8mm date marking footage, vintage hand circling dates, and July August 1946 calendar insert.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other India 1946 material, and then with calendar, diary, travel, or personal-history footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1946 India home-movie footage, hands point across a July calendar page with one date circled in red. — Hands mark and indicate dates on a July 1946 calendar page.

A hand holds and points to dates on a July 1946 calendar page in the 8mm home-movie frame. — A finger points across the July calendar as the page is held in place.

A hand turns or folds a calendar sheet, with the darkened page and printed dates partly visible. — The calendar page is turned, briefly obscuring the printed dates beneath the hand.

An August 1946 calendar page is held in view, with hands near the edges and dates printed in red and black. — The sequence lands on an August 1946 calendar page held against a straw-like background.

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