Portugal-1972: Aerial View Of Coastal Town With Beach And Waves

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationPortugal
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 Portugal

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Aerial View Of Coastal Town With Beach And Waves — Clip Details

Aerial vintage 8mm footage from Portugal in 1972 captures a sun-drenched coastal town nestled between rolling green hills and a sandy beach. White-washed buildings with terracotta roofs line the shore, while gentle waves break along the coastline. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color saturation, and slight vignetting, evoking a nostalgic summer vacation atmosphere. People are visible on the beach, enjoying the seaside, with a promenade running alongside the water. The camera maintains a steady high-angle view, offering a sweeping perspective of the town's layout and its relationship to the ocean and surrounding landscape.

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: 120949923

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: Useful for 1970s Portugal travel, coastal geography, vacation, and seaside-town establishing sequences needing real aerial home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames show terracotta-roofed coastal buildings, a beachfront promenade, and beachgoers in a 1972 8mm scan, with no visible signage or landmarks identifiable from the stills.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a visitor-shot aerial perspective, observing the shoreline, town edge, surf, and small figures on the beach without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a sandy beach, breaking waves, shoreline buildings, red-tiled roofs, a promenade or road, green hills, distant ridgelines, and scattered beach visitors.
Film character: The footage carries dense 8mm grain, soft focus, warm color shift, mild vignetting, and gate-edge contact-sheet artifacts that place it clearly in a physical-film archive context.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, coastal-memory beat, or geographic cutaway before closer beach or town material.
Historical context: The view documents a developed Portuguese seaside setting in 1972, showing recreation along the beach and compact coastal urban growth against surrounding hills.
Research note: People are visible only as small distant beach figures, so copyright, likeness, location, and property considerations should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1972 Portugal 8mm aerial beach town, vintage coastal vacation footage, Portuguese shoreline waves, and home-movie seaside establishing shot.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other Portugal 1972 coastal footage, and finally with broader 1970s beach, travel, and vacation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Portugal 8mm aerial view of a coastal town, beachfront buildings, sandy shore, surf, green hills, and small beachgoers. — Coastal town and beach seen from above.

Aerial 8mm frame from Portugal in 1972 showing beachfront buildings, a sandy beach, white surf, and wooded hills beyond the town. — Beachfront buildings line the shore below hills.

1972 Portugal aerial home-movie frame with compact coastal buildings, a broad sandy beach, breaking waves, hillside terrain, and scattered visitors. — Surf breaks along the town beach.

Portugal 1972 8mm aerial view of waves meeting a sandy beach below a coastal town with red roofs and green hills behind it. — Waves reach the beach below the town.

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