Portugal-1972: Courtyard with Fountain and Arched Colonnade

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationPortugal
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 Portugal

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Courtyard with Fountain and Arched Colonnade — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Portugal in 1972 captures a serene courtyard with a classic white stone building featuring arched colonnades and multi-paned windows. A two-tiered stone fountain stands in the center, surrounded by greenery. The film exhibits natural color shifts with a distinct purple tint, characteristic of aged Super 8 film stock, and shows subtle camera movement across the scene. The footage has a nostalgic, archival quality with visible grain and soft focus, evoking a quiet moment from a bygone era.

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: 120948962

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

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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: Useful for documentary or museum edits seeking 1972 Portugal travel footage of a quiet architectural courtyard with a fountain and arched stone colonnades.
Period detail: The visible white masonry facade, multi-paned windows, arched walkways, and stone fountain may show a historic institutional or civic courtyard, while the 1972 date is supported by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from a visitor's viewpoint on the courtyard architecture and fountain, giving the scene an unstaged travel-film observation rather than a formal architectural survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a two-tiered stone fountain, arched colonnades, pale stone walls, dark window openings, shuttered or recessed doorways, patches of greenery, and a courtyard lawn edge.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, modest handheld drift, high-contrast sunlight, and a purple-blue color shift typical of aged home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm architectural insert, location-establishing cutaway, travel-memory beat, or visual transition within Portugal or 1970s Europe sequences.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for leisure travel or personal filming of older Portuguese architecture without making a specific landmark identification from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should be reviewed separately before publication.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1972 Portugal 8mm courtyard footage, vintage Portuguese building with fountain, arched colonnade home movie, and 1970s European travel architecture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Portugal 1972 exterior scenes, then broader 1970s European courtyard, fountain, and historic-building travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Portugal 8mm frame showing a sunlit pale stone courtyard facade with arched colonnades, dark windows, greenery, and a two-tiered fountain in front. — Courtyard facade and fountain in sunlight.

1972 Portugal travel-film frame with a stone fountain centered before a white building, arched walkways, upper windows, and small areas of greenery. — Stone fountain framed by arched walkways.

1972 Portugal 8mm frame showing the courtyard fountain lower in the shot, with white stone arches, recessed doors, dark windows, and planted greenery behind it. — Lower view of fountain and white arches.

1972 Portugal 8mm frame of a pale courtyard building with repeated arches, multi-paned windows, a stone fountain, shrubs, and strong sun-shadow contrast. — Fountain and repeated courtyard arches.

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