India-1970: Young Man Frolicking In Waves At Beach

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Young Man Frolicking In Waves At Beach — Clip Details

A young man frolics in the shallow waves at a sandy beach in India during the 1970s, captured on vintage 8mm film. The footage shows him wading and playing in the water under a clear blue sky, with a distant island visible across the calm sea. The scene is framed by the dark borders of a home movie projector, emphasizing its nostalgic, archival quality. The colors are slightly faded, with a distinct purple tint characteristic of 8mm film from that era, evoking a sense of serene, personal memory.

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: 125009546

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.

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 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s India home-movie requests needing beach leisure, coastal travel, or informal seaside recreation for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The frames may show 1970s amateur 8mm color footage, with simple beachwear, open shoreline, and distant low landforms as visible era and setting clues.
Home-movie behavior: An adult young man wades, bends, and plays in shallow surf in an unstaged home-movie moment filmed from the beach.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include sandy beach, small breaking waves, blue sea, distant rocky or low island, one man in the surf, clear sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, mild handheld framing, faded color, and a purple-blue cast that reads as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief memory beat, beach cutaway, travel insert, or transition into a broader sequence about family leisure or coastal India.
Historical context: The footage offers a personal view of seaside recreation in India, showing an individual enjoying shallow water rather than a formal public event.
Research note: A person is visible, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and any personal-release status should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1970s India beach home movie, 8mm coastal leisure footage, young man in waves, vintage family travel film, and sandy shoreline cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1970 India coastal scenes, then with broader home-movie beach and travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1970s India home-movie frame showing a young man near small waves on a sandy beach, with low distant land across the sea. — A young man stands in the shallow waves near the shoreline.

1970s India beach footage frame with a young man wading in gentle surf beneath a clear sky and distant shoreline. — The man wades through low surf as waves break along the sand.

1970s India home-movie frame showing the man low in the shallow water, with beach sand in front and distant land across the sea. — The figure dips low in the surf near the edge of the beach.

1970s India beach frame showing a young man bending in shallow waves, with calm sea and distant land in the background. — The man bends forward as a small wave reaches the shore.

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