Portugal-1972: Gothic Cathedral with Spires and Arches

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationPortugal
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 Portugal

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Gothic Cathedral with Spires and Arches — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Portugal in 1972 captures a grand Gothic cathedral with intricate stonework, pointed arches, and soaring spires under a bright sky. The film shows a slow pan across the historic structure, revealing its detailed facade and surrounding greenery. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, warm color grading with a purple tint, and visible film grain. In the final frame, a statue of a mounted figure appears to the right, adding to the historical atmosphere. This authentic home movie offers a nostalgic glimpse of European architecture.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 120949392

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: 1970s Portugal 8mm footage suited to archival requests for European Gothic architecture, cathedral exteriors, and travel-home-movie inserts.
Period detail: The clip may show early-1970s visitor-shot travel footage, with period clues coming from the 8mm color stock, handheld framing, soft focus, and the absence of modern signage in the visible views.
Home-movie behavior: The camera behaves like a tourist home movie, slowly scanning the cathedral facade from a public vantage point and catching surrounding greenery and a mounted monument at the edge of the scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pointed Gothic arches, stone tracery, buttress-like vertical forms, spires, pale sky, foreground shrubs, dark film borders, and a mounted statue in the final frame.
Film character: The footage has a physical 8mm texture with visible grain, mild softness, purple-blue color shift, uneven exposure, and handheld framing within rounded film-gate edges.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an architectural cutaway, travel-memory insert, establishing transition, or quiet historical texture between Portugal travel scenes.
Historical context: The view reflects a visitor's exterior encounter with a historic religious landmark in Portugal without supporting claims about the building's identity, denomination, or event context.
Research note: Rights review should consider copyright in the film scan separately from any likeness or public-monument/property issues, with no visible logos and no clearly identifiable faces in these frames.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1972 Portugal 8mm cathedral exterior, Gothic stone arches home movie, European spires travel footage, and vintage Portugal landmark cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other Portugal 1972 travel footage, and then with broader vintage European architecture or cathedral exterior material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Portugal 8mm frame showing a Gothic cathedral exterior with pointed stone arches, spires, tracery, and a pale sky above the facade. — Cathedral facade with arches and spires.

1972 Portugal 8mm frame of a Gothic cathedral exterior, showing arched windows, vertical stonework, spires, and greenery in the lower right. — Stone arches and greenery beside the cathedral.

1972 Portugal 8mm frame showing a closer visitor-shot view of the cathedral's arched stone facade, tower-like corner, spires, and foreground greenery. — Closer view of the cathedral stonework.

1972 Portugal 8mm frame showing the cathedral exterior with Gothic stonework, foreground shrubs, background buildings, and a mounted statue appearing at the right edge. — Cathedral view with mounted monument at right.

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