Portugal-1972: A Woman Walking Down An Alleyway

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationPortugal
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 Portugal

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A Woman Walking Down An Alleyway — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Portugal in 1972, capturing a woman walking down a narrow, sun-drenched alleyway in a traditional town. The scene features whitewashed buildings with yellow trim, tiled roofs, and a cobblestone street, bathed in bright daylight with deep shadows. A woman in a pink top and dark pants carries a bag as she moves through the quiet street, with a parked car visible in the foreground. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic, authentic feel, offering a candid glimpse into daily life in a Portuguese village during the early 1970s.

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: 120948344

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This clip fits archival requests for early 1970s Portuguese street life, especially documentary inserts about everyday movement through older town streets and village-scale urban environments.
Period detail: The whitewashed walls, yellow lower trim, tiled roofs, narrow cobblestone lane, parked car, and 8mm color home-movie texture may show a traditional Portuguese town setting in the early 1970s.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged observation of a woman walking through a quiet alley while the camera watches from a visitor or family-film perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a narrow sunlit alley, whitewashed buildings with yellow trim, cobblestone paving, tiled rooflines, a parked car, deep wall shadows, utility poles, and a woman in a pink top carrying a bag.
Film character: The footage has handheld 8mm softness, visible grain, strong contrast between bright plaster walls and deep shadows, and slight color shift typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, memory beat, travel transition, or establishing insert for daily life in Portugal during the 1970s.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for pedestrian movement, residential street architecture, and quiet town life without supporting a claim about a specific landmark or event.
Research note: People are visible and may require likeness review depending on use, while no logos or music are evident and copyright clearance remains separate from any likeness or property considerations.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1970s Portugal 8mm alley, Portuguese village street home movie, woman walking cobblestone lane, whitewashed buildings yellow trim, and vintage Portugal travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other Portugal 1972 street scenes, and then with broader 1970s European town, walking, errands, and travel home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Portugal 1972 home-movie frame showing a narrow sunlit alley with whitewashed buildings, yellow trim, a parked car in the foreground, and a person partly visible near the vehicle. — Parked car in a narrow whitewashed alley.

Portugal 1972 home-movie frame showing a woman in a pink top walking away along a narrow cobblestone alley lined with whitewashed buildings and strong sunlit shadows. — Woman walking down the alley.

Portugal 1972 home-movie frame showing a woman carrying a bag as she walks away through a narrow cobblestone alley bordered by whitewashed walls, yellow trim, and utility poles. — Woman carrying a bag through the lane.

Portugal 1972 home-movie frame showing the woman farther down the alley, framed by whitewashed buildings, tiled roofs, a utility pole, and a small stop sign in the distance. — Figure receding along the village street.

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