India-1969: Man Playing Flute For Cobra

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationIndia
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Man Playing Flute For Cobra — Clip Details

A man in a white shirt and dark vest crouches on a sun-dappled street in India, playing a flute to a cobra with its hood expanded. Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures the traditional snake charmer performance under dappled sunlight, with onlookers and a wooden stick visible in the background. The footage shows natural film grain and color shifts typical of Super 8 archival footage, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century street 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 and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125062491

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.

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: 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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: India Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s India street-life requests needing brief editorial footage of a snake charmer performance on 8mm home-movie film.
Period detail: The white shirt, dark vest, handheld framing, and sunlit street setting may show late-1960s everyday performance culture as recorded by a visitor or amateur filmmaker.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged street encounter, with the camera holding on the crouching performer and cobra while passersby move through the frame.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a crouching flute player, a cobra with raised hood, dappled pavement, onlookers' legs, a wooden stick, stools, and deep film shadows.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, bluish color shift, high-contrast sunlight, soft focus, and slight handheld instability consistent with physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, cultural street-performance insert, travel-memory beat, or transition within a sequence about India in the 1960s.
Historical context: The scene documents a public animal performance as seen from street level, but it should not be treated as evidence of a specific city, festival, or named event.
Research note: People and a performer are visible, and audible flute music is noted, so likeness, animal-performance, and music-use questions should be reviewed separately from film copyright.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 India 8mm footage, snake charmer home movie, cobra flute street performance, and vintage Indian street culture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1969 India street scenes, then broader archival footage of traditional performance or animals in public settings.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1969 India footage, a crouching man in a white shirt and dark vest plays a flute near a cobra with onlookers partly visible. — A snake charmer crouches on the pavement while playing toward a cobra.

The performer remains crouched on an Indian street, holding a flute toward a cobra while people pass in the background. — The cobra faces the flute player as pedestrians move behind the scene.

A handheld 8mm frame shows the crouching snake charmer playing flute, with the cobra low in the foreground and passersby behind him. — The performer continues playing as the cobra remains near the foreground.

The final frame holds on the Indian street performance, with the flute player crouched at right and the cobra and stick visible on the pavement. — The snake charmer and cobra remain in view at the end of the short clip.

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