Portugal-1972: Double-Decker Bus On The Street

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationPortugal
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 Portugal

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Double-Decker Bus On The Street — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Portugal in 1972 captures a green and cream double-decker bus navigating a city street. The bus, featuring a prominent 'NOVA' advertisement on its side, moves past a modern apartment building with balconies and parked classic cars from the era. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-1970s urban life and public transport. The perspective suggests the clip was filmed from a moving vehicle or sidewalk, with the bus passing through the frame.

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: 120949214

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: Yes
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 supports 1970s Portugal urban transport requests as a brief documentary insert of a double-decker bus moving through a city street.
Period detail: The green and cream double-decker bus, compact parked cars, apartment balconies, and visible advertising may show early-1970s urban street detail in Portugal.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the value of an unstaged street observation, with the bus passing close to the camera as a traveler records everyday city movement.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a green and cream double-decker bus, a large NOVA advertisement, apartment blocks with balconies, parked classic cars, street pavement, and a brief close view of roadside vegetation with a red flower.
Film character: The 8mm image carries visible grain, soft focus, gate-edge darkness, color shift, and handheld framing that mark it as scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short transport cutaway, city-life insert, travel transition, or memory beat within a 1970s Portugal sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually situates public transport among apartment housing and compact cars, suggesting ordinary urban mobility rather than a staged or official scene.
Research note: Human review should account for visible advertising and any incidental people or likenesses, with copyright, trademark, and likeness questions assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1972 Portugal double-decker bus footage, 8mm Portuguese city street, vintage public transport, and 1970s urban travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Portugal 1972 street scenes, and then broader vintage public transport or European city travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Portugal street view with a green and cream double-decker bus carrying a NOVA advertisement beside apartment buildings and parked compact cars. — Double-decker bus passes parked cars near apartment blocks.

Front view of a green and cream double-decker bus in Portugal in 1972, framed against apartment balconies and parked compact cars. — Bus front moves through a city street scene.

Close 1972 Portugal street frame of a green and cream double-decker bus passing near the camera, with advertising panels and parked cars partly visible. — Close pass of the double-decker bus.

Brief 8mm cutaway of dense roadside or garden vegetation with a red flower, appearing within the same Portugal 1972 home-movie sequence. — Red flower amid dense greenery.

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