India-1947: Girl In Sari Dancing In The Yard

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Year1947
Decade1940s
LocationIndia
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1947 India

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Girl In Sari Dancing In The Yard — Clip Details

A young woman in a vibrant green and red sari dances gracefully in a garden setting, captured on 8mm film in India in 1947. Her traditional attire flows as she performs expressive hand gestures and poised movements, likely a classical Indian dance. The scene is set outdoors with manicured hedges, a white pillar, and a small brass pot visible, bathed in natural sunlight. The footage exhibits the characteristic grain, color saturation, and slight instability of vintage home movies, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century Indian life and culture.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124756814

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1729 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: raja daughter dancing
Reel-level year note: 1947
Reel-level location note: india
Date: 1947 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: 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: This 1947 India 8mm clip supports requests for mid-20th-century home-movie footage of dance, clothing, and garden leisure for documentary or educational use.
Period detail: The sari, garden setting, brass vessel, and soft color 8mm look may show domestic or informal performance details from India in the late 1940s.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the informal home-movie view of a young woman performing dance gestures outdoors rather than a staged studio recording.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dancer in a green and red sari, a lawn, trimmed hedges, a white pillar, flowers, a brass pot, and deep shadows.
Film character: The footage has saturated color, soft focus, visible grain, gate weave, and uneven exposure typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cultural memory beat, dance insert, transition, or cutaway within material on family life, clothing, or postwar India.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for clothing, outdoor domestic space, and informal performance, without confirming a specific dance tradition from the frames alone.
Research note: A visible face and possible private grounds require likeness and property review; copyright status and footage ownership should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s India home movie, 8mm Indian dancer in sari, vintage garden dance footage, and postwar family film India.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other India 1947 material, then related home-movie clips of dance, clothing, gardens, or family gatherings.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1947 India home-movie footage, a young woman in a green and red sari dances outdoors beside a white pillar and hedge. — A dancer in a sari gestures with both hands on a sunlit lawn.

A young woman in a bright sari performs a dance pose in a garden setting in India, with flowers and a white pillar behind her. — The dancer faces the camera while her sari catches light against the garden backdrop.

The 8mm frame shows the sari-clad dancer near a white pillar and flowers, with a small brass pot visible on the grass. — A brass pot sits in the foreground as the dancer turns near the flowers.

In the closing frame, the dancer raises one arm in a poised gesture beside a white pillar, hedge, and brass pot in the garden. — The dancer holds an elevated arm pose in the garden setting.

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