India-1970: Cobra With Flared Hood On Patterned Textiles

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Cobra With Flared Hood On Patterned Textiles — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1970, this vintage home movie captures a cobra in India, its hood flared and body coiled on patterned textiles. The snake remains alert and poised, its scales catching the light against a dusty earth-toned background. Nearby, a woven basket and traditional items suggest a rural setting. The footage, with its characteristic film grain and warm color palette, offers a rare glimpse of a dangerous wild animal in close proximity to humans, evoking a sense of tension and cultural authenticity.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-up
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125010299

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s India archival requests needing close home-movie footage of a cobra display, animal handling, rural travel, or risk-related documentary inserts.
Period detail: The 8mm color, woven basket, patterned textiles, dusty ground, and visible footwear may show a visitor-recorded rural or roadside animal demonstration in India around 1970.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a traveler or observer filming from very close range as the cobra stays upright near textiles and people just outside the main frame.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the cobra with flared hood, patterned cloth, dusty ground, woven basket, small metal container, cloth bag, and partial human legs or feet.
Film character: Warm color, visible grain, soft focus, and slight handheld framing give the scanned 8mm footage a physical home-movie texture suited to archival use.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a tense cutaway, travel-memory insert, wildlife-risk detail, or transition into scenes about animals and human proximity.
Historical context: The footage shows a cobra displayed near everyday objects and people, but it should not be used to make unsupported claims about a specific performer or ceremony.
Research note: Copyright, likeness, and contextual rights should be reviewed because people are partially visible and the animal setting may require careful editorial framing.
Research search match: Researchers may find this under searches such as 1970s India 8mm cobra, home movie snake charmer, flared hood cobra, or vintage wildlife close-up.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other India 1970 travel footage, and finally related clips of snakes, rural demonstrations, or human-animal encounters.

Still Frames From This Clip

1970 India 8mm frame showing a cobra with flared hood near patterned textiles and earth-toned ground. — A cobra holds its hood open beside patterned textiles on dusty ground.

Close 8mm view of a cobra in India, upright and alert beside patterned fabric on the ground. — The cobra remains upright and alert with its hood spread near cloth on the ground.

1970 India home-movie frame of a cobra facing the camera near patterned cloth and a dark round object. — A close view centers the cobra as it faces the camera near textiles.

Wider 1970 India frame showing the cobra on dusty ground beside a woven basket, cloth bundle, metal container, and people’s lower legs. — The wider frame shows the cobra beside a woven basket and other objects near people’s feet.

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