India-1969: Temple Next To Modern Building

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationIndia
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Temple Next To Modern Building — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a traditional Chinese temple with ornate tiled roofs and decorative dragon sculptures, juxtaposed against a modern white building. The footage, likely from a personal travel recording, shows the temple's red pillars, intricate carvings, and a stone gate with Chinese characters. A small bonsai tree sits within a metal fence in the courtyard. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, conveying a nostalgic, archival feel of mid-century Asia. Ideal for historical documentaries, cultural studies, or retro-themed projects.

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: 125062970

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 is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 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 travel-film requests needing a brief exterior cutaway of an ornate Chinese-style temple beside a modern building in India-listed footage.
Period detail: The scene may show late-1960s urban travel context through the white multi-story building, metal fencing, red shutters, and handheld 8mm framing of temple architecture.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on rooflines, courtyard fencing, and architectural details rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include ornate tiled roofs, dragon-like roof sculptures, red pillars, decorative balcony panels, a white modern building, metal fencing, and a small shaped tree.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, color shift toward purple-blue shadows, uneven exposure, and handheld motion as part of its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short establishing insert, architectural cutaway, travel-memory beat, or contrast shot between traditional ornament and modern construction.
Historical context: The footage documents a tourist view of temple architecture set against nearby modern urban construction without proving the site's identity or specific cultural event.
Research note: People and possible signage or logos require review for likeness, trademark, and location context, separate from any copyright assessment of the film scan.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 8mm India travel footage, Chinese-style temple exterior, ornate temple roof, red pillars, modern building contrast, and vintage Asian city home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other India-listed 1969 travel exteriors, then broader clips of temple architecture and modern urban contrast.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 India-listed 8mm frame showing an ornate Chinese-style temple roof, decorative carvings, and a modern white building behind it. — Ornate temple roof details appear next to a plain modern building.

Upper portion of a Chinese-style temple with tiled roof ornaments, red railing, and adjacent white multi-story building in 1969 India-listed footage. — Temple roof ornamentation is seen close against a modern white structure.

1969 India-listed 8mm view of a temple facade with red shutters, metal courtyard fence, small shaped tree, and partially visible visitors near the frame edge. — Red temple shutters and courtyard fencing fill the lower temple view.

Handheld 1969 India-listed frame showing the temple's red lower facade, dark entry bay, courtyard fence, small shaped tree, and blurred visitors at the bottom. — The camera drops to the temple entrance area with fencing and passersby below.

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