Barcelona Spain-1971: Bullfighter Faces Charging Black Bull In Arena

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationBarcelona, Spain
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Bullfighter Faces Charging Black Bull In Arena — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Barcelona, Spain, in 1971 captures a tense bullfighting event. A matador in traditional silks and a red sash faces a large black bull in a sunlit arena with wooden barriers. The grainy, color-bleached film shows the bull charging and the matador dodging, with dramatic shadows cast on the sand. The footage, likely home movie quality, conveys the raw intensity and danger of the spectacle, with a distinct retro aesthetic and authentic film imperfections.

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: 120912097

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: 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: 1971 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: Barcelona, Spain 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: This 1971 Barcelona 8mm clip helps answer archive requests for Spanish bullfighting spectacle, risky arena action, and documentary inserts about public entertainment in the early 1970s.
Period detail: The footage shows a sandy bullring with wooden barriers, a matador-style performer in traditional-looking clothing, and color home-movie texture consistent with the supplied 1971 Spain metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a spectator position, catching the bull and performer in brief, unsmoothed moments rather than staged coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a black bull with horns, a bullfighter in cap and sash, sandy arena ground, wooden ring boards, strong shadow across the arena, and 8mm frame borders from the contact sheet.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, exposure shifts between sun and shade, and slight blur that reads as authentic home-movie capture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief action insert, danger beat, or period cutaway within a sequence on Spanish travel, bullfighting, tourism, or contested public spectacle.
Historical context: The scene documents a bullfighting arena encounter as filmed by a visitor or spectator, with the social context limited to the visible performance and audience-side perspective.
Research note: People are visible and the bullfight subject may require editorial sensitivity, so copyright, performer likeness, animal-welfare context, and venue identification should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1971 Barcelona bullfight 8mm, vintage Spain bullfighter black bull, home movie bullring arena, and 1970s Spanish bullfighting footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Barcelona or Spain 1971 travel footage, and finally broader 1970s arena, festival, or animal spectacle material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A black horned bull moves through a sunlit sandy bullring in Barcelona, Spain, from 1971 metadata, with strong shadow and 8mm contact-sheet framing. — Black bull crosses the arena.

The black bull appears near the edge of the 8mm frame in a sandy Barcelona bullring, with arena boards in the background and heavy shadow in the foreground. — Bull enters the edge of frame.

A bullfighter in cap, sash, and high socks steps near a charging black bull in the Barcelona arena, with the action partly shaded and blurred by motion. — Bullfighter faces the bull.

The bullfighter appears close to the black bull near the wooden arena boards, with the figure partly bent forward and the 8mm image showing motion softness. — Bullfighter close to the bull.

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