Portugal-1972: Loaded Ferry Floats Across The Bay; People Walk Through An Open Archway

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationPortugal
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 Portugal

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Loaded Ferry Floats Across The Bay; People Walk Through... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Portugal in 1972 captures a loaded ferry gliding across a calm bay under a clear blue sky. The scene is framed by a dark border, with a distant shoreline visible. A white van and several people in period clothing walk through an ornate arched gateway with tiled roofing and a crest, suggesting a historic estate or port entrance. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel ideal for historical or documentary 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: 120948149

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: 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1972 Portugal 8mm clip supports archive requests for early 1970s travel, coastal transport, bay crossings, and visitor-shot European home-movie atmosphere.
Period detail: The ferry, distant shoreline, saturated color, and 8mm handling may show a 1970s tourist or family travel record in Portugal, with later archway views supported by the clip description.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the observational home-movie perspective, holding on everyday movement across the bay and visitor passage through an open archway rather than staging a formal scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a loaded ferry, calm bay water, distant shoreline, low hills, pale foreground rail or ledge, dark film borders, and blue sky.
Film character: The footage carries a scanned 8mm character with visible grain, saturated blue-purple color, soft detail, slight exposure variation, and contact-frame borders that reinforce its physical-film origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, coastal transition, transport cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about Portugal, ferry travel, or 1970s home movies.
Historical context: The bay crossing and described arched entrance offer visual context for leisure travel and local transport without supporting identification of a specific port, estate, or landmark from the frames alone.
Research note: People are flagged elsewhere in the clip, so likeness review may be needed, while no logos or audible music are indicated and copyright, likeness, and any property concerns should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1972 Portugal 8mm ferry crossing, 1970s Portuguese bay home movie, loaded ferry across water, and people walking through arched gateway travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Portugal 1972 travel material, and then with broader themes of ferry transport, coastal towns, historic entrances, and European home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Portugal 8mm frame showing a loaded ferry moving across a calm bay, with a distant shoreline, low hills, and dark film borders visible. — Loaded ferry crossing the bay.

1972 Portugal 8mm frame with a ferry carrying vehicles or cargo across open bay water, framed by the scanned film edge and a distant shoreline. — Ferry continues across open water.

1972 Portugal 8mm frame showing the ferry farther across the bay, with rippled water, distant shoreline buildings, low hills, and a pale foreground edge. — Ferry passing the distant shoreline.

1972 Portugal 8mm frame of a loaded ferry crossing calm bay water near the edge of the frame, with distant coastal buildings and low hills beyond. — Loaded ferry near the far side of the bay view.

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