Rome Italy-1973: Tourists at St. Peter's Basilica

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationRome, Italy
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 Rome Italy

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Tourists at St — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Rome, Italy, in 1973, capturing a bustling tourist scene. The clip opens with a grainy, high-angle view of the city's dense urban landscape, transitioning to a vibrant shot of St. Peter's Basilica with its iconic dome under a bright blue sky. Crowds of tourists, dressed in 1970s fashion, move through the historic square, framed by classical architecture and ancient columns. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and authentic 8mm camera movement, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century European travel and daily life in Vatican City.

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: 120914834

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1973 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: Rome, Italy 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: This 1973 8mm Rome travel clip helps documentary, museum, and education editors illustrate 1970s European tourism around St. Peter's Basilica and Vatican City visitor spaces.
Period detail: The clothing, handheld tourist viewpoint, film stock color, and crowded basilica approach may show early-1970s leisure travel behavior in Rome.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries the unstaged value of a visitor filming from within the crowd, shifting from a high city view to busy landmark scenes rather than a composed official view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a hazy city overlook, St. Peter's Basilica dome and facade, colonnades, an obelisk, stone architecture, dense tourist crowds, and 1970s street clothing.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, slight color fade, gate edges, uneven exposure, and handheld movement that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a Rome travel insert, Vatican City establishing cutaway, tourist-crowd transition, or memory beat within a personal travel sequence.
Historical context: The frames show public tourism around a major Catholic landmark, with visitors moving through monumental architecture in a way that reflects mass sightseeing rather than a staged ceremony.
Research note: People and faces are visible in a public landmark setting, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright assessment, and the religious landmark context should be considered for sensitive uses.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1973 Rome 8mm home movie, St. Peter's Basilica tourists, Vatican City travel footage, 1970s Italy tourism, and Super 8 European vacation crowds.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Rome or Vatican City footage from 1973, then broader 1970s European tourism and landmark crowd material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Grainy 1973 8mm travel frame showing a high-angle view over Rome's urban landscape with hills beyond, seen through dark film-frame edges. — High view across Rome toward surrounding hills.

1973 Rome home-movie frame of tourists near St. Peter's Basilica, with the dome, facade, colonnade, obelisk, and heads of visitors in the foreground. — Tourists approach St. Peter's Basilica.

Soft handheld 1973 8mm frame from Rome showing tourists in the foreground and St. Peter's Basilica behind them, with the dome, obelisk, and surrounding architecture visible. — Visitor-shot view of the basilica and crowd.

1973 Rome 8mm frame of a dense tourist crowd in St. Peter's Square, with a statue, colonnade, basilica architecture, and visitors in 1970s clothing visible. — Crowd gathers in St. Peter's Square.

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