India-1969: Building and Rice Paddies in Mountains

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationIndia
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Building and Rice Paddies in Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a white multi-story building with balconies and large windows, partially framed by dark tree trunks. The scene transitions to terraced rice paddy fields winding up a lush mountainside, with a narrow dirt road snaking through the green landscape. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera movement, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of rural India.

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: 125063000

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s India home-movie footage suited to documentary requests for travel, rural landscape, agriculture, and built-environment cutaways.
Period detail: The white multi-story building, balcony railings, dark tree trunks, and terraced hillside fields may show late-1960s travel views recorded on 8mm film.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, moving from a partially obscured building view to a scenic mountainside paddy landscape without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white balcony building, dark tree trunks, large windows, terraced green fields, a narrow road, wooded slopes, and a clear daylight setting.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, muted color shifts, soft focus, slight handheld movement, and uneven exposure typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel transition, rural agriculture cutaway, or memory beat between broader India sequences.
Historical context: The views place modern lodging or institutional architecture beside cultivated terraced hillsides, suggesting a traveler observing both settlement and agriculture.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright, location identification, and any property-release needs for their use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 India 8mm travel footage, terraced rice paddy fields, mountain agriculture, white balcony building, and vintage home movie landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other India 1969 material, then with rural agriculture, mountain road, and travel-establishing footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 India home-movie frame showing a white balcony building partly obscured by dark tree trunks. — A white multi-story building with balconies is framed by dark foreground trees.

White multi-story building in India, filmed in 1969 through dark vertical tree trunks. — Balconies and windows on a white building are visible between dark tree trunks.

1969 India home-movie view of terraced green paddy fields below a wooded mountainside road. — Terraced fields spread across a green hillside with a narrow road above them.

Terraced rice paddy fields in 1969 India, with a winding road crossing the wooded hillside above. — A winding road and dense hillside trees rise above terraced green fields.

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