Portugal-1972: Coastal Town with Cross on Hillside

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationPortugal
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 Portugal

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Coastal Town with Cross on Hillside — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film from Portugal in 1972 captures a scenic coastal town with white buildings and red-tiled roofs nestled along a sandy beach. The footage shows people walking on the shore and a prominent cross on a hill, suggesting a religious site. The camera pans across the town and coastline, revealing waves breaking on the sand and a mountainous backdrop. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic 1970s vacation memory. This authentic home movie footage is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, and retro-themed projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120949869

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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s Portugal home-movie footage that can support documentary or editorial requests for coastal tourism, beach towns, and elevated seaside views.
Period detail: The red-tiled roofs, dense low-rise waterfront buildings, beach promenade, and faded 8mm color may show an early-1970s visitor view of a Portuguese coastal resort town.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a visitor-shot overlook, lingering on the town, beach, surf, hillside, and hilltop cross from a high vantage point rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a sandy beach, ocean waves, clustered white buildings with red roofs, a waterfront road or promenade, green hills, distant mountains, tiny beachgoers, and a prominent cross on a hill.
Film character: The scan carries soft 8mm grain, faded blue-magenta color, slight blur, gate edges, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture of the source film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, travel transition, coastline cutaway, or memory beat for a Portugal holiday or seaside-town sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually situates leisure and coastal settlement together, with beach activity below and a religious cross above the town, without identifying a specific landmark beyond Portugal metadata.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness risk appears low but should still be reviewed, and copyright clearance remains separate from any location, religious-symbol, or property considerations.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1972 Portugal 8mm beach town, Portuguese seaside aerial view, vintage home movie ocean waves, coastal town with hilltop cross, and 1970s Portugal vacation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Portugal 1972 coastal or town views, then broader 1970s European beach vacation and religious-landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Portugal 8mm frame looking down from a high vantage point over a seaside town, with red-tiled roofs, beach, surrounding hills, and a cross visible on the left ridge. — Elevated view of a Portuguese beach town and hillside cross.

1972 Portugal home-movie frame showing a high view across a dense seaside town, sandy shoreline, waterfront road, rolling hills, and ocean surf at the right edge. — Town, beach, and surf from a high coastal overlook.

1972 Portugal 8mm frame of a beachfront town below green hills, with tiny beachgoers on the sand, a row of buildings along the shore, and waves breaking at the right. — Beachgoers and waterfront buildings along the Portuguese coast.

1972 Portugal frame from an 8mm home movie showing a wider sweep of beach, ocean waves, waterfront town buildings, green hills, and hazy mountains beyond. — Wide shoreline view with town, surf, hills, and mountains.

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