Portugal-1972: A Small Boat Pulling Into A Dock

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationPortugal
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 Portugal

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A Small Boat Pulling Into A Dock — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Portugal in 1972, showing a small fishing boat pulling into a quiet coastal dock. The scene features calm blue water under a clear sky, with a distant shoreline and scattered buildings visible. Several people are aboard the boat, and a dark animal sits on the sandy shore in the foreground. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic, sun-drenched quality typical of 1970s amateur footage. The camera remains mostly static, capturing a peaceful moment of daily life at a small port.

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: 120947891

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.

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: 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: 1972 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: Portugal 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: Useful for documentary or educational edits needing 1972 Portugal coastal home-movie footage of a small working boat approaching a quiet dock or shoreline.
Period detail: The clip shows 1970s amateur 8mm visual cues, including soft color rendition, simple coastal craft, distant low shoreline buildings, and an unpolished static tourist or family-film viewpoint.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged observation of people aboard a small boat on calm water, filmed from shore as everyday harbor activity rather than a formal maritime record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm blue water, a small dark boat, several people aboard, a sandy or pale foreground edge, distant shoreline buildings, clear sky, and the black borders of the scanned film frame.
Film character: The footage carries a physical 8mm character with visible grain, slight softness, blue-purple color shift, mild exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame edges that reinforce its home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief coastal insert, harbor transition, memory beat, or contextual cutaway for Portugal, maritime work, travel, or everyday seaside life in the early 1970s.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for small-scale coastal movement and leisure or working-boat activity in Portugal without identifying the port, vessel, or people shown.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed, while no logos, readable signage, private interiors, or obvious branded property are visible in these frames.
Research search match: Matches searches such as 1972 Portugal 8mm harbor boat, vintage coastal dock home movie, small fishing boat on calm bay, and 1970s Portuguese shoreline footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other Portugal 1972 coastal or harbor material, and finally with broader 1970s small-boat, dock, bay, or travel home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Portugal 8mm frame showing a small dark boat with people aboard on calm blue water, with a distant low shoreline and clear sky behind it. — Small boat near shore on calm water.

1972 Portugal 8mm frame of a small boat carrying several people on still blue water, with low buildings visible along the far shoreline. — Boat with passengers on a quiet bay.

1972 Portugal 8mm frame where the small boat has moved partly out of view at the left edge, leaving calm water and a distant shoreline across the frame. — Boat leaving the edge of frame.

1972 Portugal 8mm frame showing open blue water and a distant low shoreline under a clear sky after the small boat has passed out of frame. — Open water after the boat passes.

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