Portugal-1972: A Boat Sailing Towards A City Of White Buildings

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationPortugal
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 Portugal

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A Boat Sailing Towards A City Of White Buildings — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Portugal in 1972 captures a serene coastal view with a small boat sailing across a calm bay toward a distant town of white buildings. The scene unfolds under a clear sky with a distinct purple color cast typical of aged film, showcasing the grainy texture and soft focus of home movie footage. A lone vessel moves steadily across the water, with the shoreline featuring low-rise structures and a prominent white building. The image is framed by dark borders, emphasizing its authentic 8mm origin and nostalgic charm.

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: 120948171

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: 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: 1970s Portugal coastal home-movie footage suited to documentary requests for a quiet establishing view of a bay, shoreline town, and small working boat.
Period detail: The clip shows an early-1970s 8mm travel-film view with distant white low-rise buildings, a calm waterfront, and no modern signage or vehicles visible in the sampled frames.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels like a visitor filming from across the water, holding on the distant town as the boat crosses the bay without staged action or directed subjects.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm open water, a small boat, a distant shoreline town of white buildings, a taller pale structure, low hills, clear sky, and dark 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage has a soft 8mm home-movie texture with visible grain, slight blur, dark film edges, and a pronounced purple-blue color shift from aged stock or scanning.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short coastal establishing insert, a travel transition, or a reflective cutaway between Portugal shoreline or maritime sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents a modest waterfront landscape in Portugal in 1972 as seen from a distance, emphasizing coastal settlement and boat traffic rather than identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, vessel ownership, and any property-related issues should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Researchers might find this under searches for 1972 Portugal 8mm coastal town, vintage home movie bay with boat, Portuguese shoreline white buildings, or small boat crossing calm water.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Portugal 1972 coastal views, then broader 1970s European waterfront, harbor, bay, and travel-home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Portugal 8mm frame showing a small boat on a calm bay with white buildings and low hills along the far shore. — Boat moving across the bay toward the distant town.

1972 Portugal 8mm frame with a small vessel moving across open water in front of a distant white coastal town. — Small vessel passing in front of white shoreline buildings.

1972 Portugal home-movie frame showing a boat crossing calm water below a distant shoreline of white low-rise buildings. — Boat crossing below the far shoreline town.

1972 Portugal 8mm frame showing a small boat on a quiet bay, with a distant waterfront town and low hills under a clear sky. — Distant town and boat under a clear sky.

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