India-1970: Flooded Rural Farm with Collapsed Water Wheel

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Year1970
Decade1970s
LocationIndia
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Flooded Rural Farm with Collapsed Water Wheel — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1970, this clip captures a panning view of a rural Indian farm during a flood. The camera moves across muddy terrain, revealing scattered wooden poles, debris, and a collapsed water wheel. In the background, simple houses with tiled roofs stand near a flooded area, with palm trees visible under a bright sky. The footage shows signs of age with natural film grain and color fading, offering a candid glimpse into daily life in a village during a period of flooding.

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: 125009441

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 1024 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: snake,mongoose,fight
Reel-level year note: 1970
Reel-level location note: kenya,india
Date: 1970 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: Useful for 1970s India archive requests needing rural flood, farm damage, or village landscape cutaways for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1970 rural setting through tiled-roof houses, palm trees, rough wooden structures, earthen ground, and non-mechanized farm debris.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational home-movie feel, with the camera panning across flood-affected ground rather than staging action or focusing on people.
What appears in frame: Visible details include muddy standing water, wooden poles, scattered boards, a collapsed wheel-like farm structure, low houses, tiled roofs, palms, and bare earth.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows coarse grain, soft focus, faded color, uneven exposure, and handheld movement that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or environmental cutaway for rural flooding, monsoon aftermath, or village infrastructure context.
Historical context: The footage provides visual context for a rural Indian farm area affected by flooding, without identifying a specific village, event, or household.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, and any property-related permissions should still be checked for intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1970 India 8mm rural flood footage, village farm water damage, wooden debris, palm-lined flooded yard, and archival home movie panning shot.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with India 1970 rural material, then with broader flood, monsoon, farm, or village-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1970 India 8mm frame showing a flooded rural farm area with scattered wood, poles, bare earth, and low tiled-roof houses behind. — Wooden debris and poles lie across muddy flood-affected ground near rural houses.

1970 India home-movie frame of a muddy flooded rural yard with timber debris in front of simple low buildings and trees. — A pan across floodwater and debris reveals low rural buildings in the background.

1970 India 8mm frame showing pooled floodwater, muddy ground, a low wall, roofed village houses, and a leaning palm tree. — Floodwater pools across an open rural yard with houses and a palm tree behind it.

1970 India frame with a collapsed wooden wheel-like farm structure, poles, debris, palm trees, and water visible behind. — A collapsed wooden farm structure sits among debris, palms, and flood-affected ground.

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