India-1969: Snake Charmer Playing Wind Instrument to Cobra

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationIndia
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Snake Charmer Playing Wind Instrument to Cobra — Clip Details

A man in a white shirt and dark vest crouches on a sun-dappled street in India, playing a wind instrument to a cobra with its hood expanded. The 8mm film captures the traditional snake charmer in a public setting, with onlookers seated in the background. The footage has a warm, faded color palette and visible film grain, characteristic of vintage home movie footage from 1969. The scene evokes a sense of cultural tradition and historical authenticity.

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: 125062484

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: Yes

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1969 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: India Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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 1960s India archive requests needing brief home-movie footage of a street snake charmer or traditional animal performance.
Period detail: The frames may show late-1960s public street life, with a crouching performer, simple clothing, shaded pavement, and seated onlookers as visible period clues.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a visitor-like distance as the performer crouches and plays toward the cobra, giving the scene an unstaged travel-film quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a crouching man, a hooded cobra, a wind instrument, a small basket or container, shaded pavement, tree shadows, and background onlookers.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, faded color, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cultural cutaway, travel-memory insert, or transitional beat within a sequence about India, street performance, or archival tourism.
Historical context: The clip documents a public performance setting with a snake charmer and nearby observers, without confirming the exact city, community, or event.
Research note: People are visible and the performance includes audible music, so likeness, cultural context, animal-use, and separate music or sound rights should be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 India 8mm snake charmer footage, cobra street performance, traditional wind instrument, and vintage travel home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other India 1969 street scenes, then broader archival clips of traditional performers or animal acts.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1969 India footage, a man crouches on a sun-dappled street near a hooded cobra with a basket in the foreground. — A crouching performer faces a hooded cobra on a shaded street.

The performer remains crouched in the 1969 India street scene, holding a wind instrument as the cobra faces him from the pavement. — The snake charmer plays toward the cobra in the street.

A man in a white shirt and dark vest crouches beside a raised cobra in this India home-movie frame from 1969. — The cobra is raised near the performer and basket.

The 1969 India frame shows the crouching snake charmer and cobra from a slightly soft, dark 8mm home-movie view. — A shaded 8mm frame holds the performer and cobra in profile.

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