Portugal-1972: Cascading Foothills Surrounding Quaint Seaside Town Located On

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationPortugal
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 Portugal

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Cascading Foothills Surrounding Quaint Seaside Town... — Clip Details

Aerial vintage 8mm footage from Portugal in 1972 captures a quaint seaside town nestled along a sandy beach with gentle waves breaking. The town features tightly packed buildings with terracotta roofs lining the coast, backed by lush green foothills. The film exhibits classic Super 8 color grading with a purple-blue tint and visible grain, offering a nostalgic glimpse of a peaceful coastal community during a summer holiday. The camera maintains a steady high-angle view, showcasing the natural landscape and urban layout in authentic retro quality.

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: 120949935

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: This 1970s Portugal 8mm clip helps satisfy archive requests for coastal holiday geography, seaside settlement views, and aerial-feeling beach establishing material.
Period detail: The terracotta roofline, beachfront buildings, sparse high-rise forms, and saturated 8mm color may show a Portuguese resort town as seen by a traveler in 1972.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the visitor-shot high vantage point, recording the town, beach, surf, and surrounding hills without staged action or formal tourism framing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a sandy beach, breaking surf, clustered terracotta roofs, white waterfront buildings, green foothills, distant ridgelines, and small beachgoers along the shore.
Film character: The footage carries a soft 8mm texture with visible grain, slight purple-blue color shift, rounded frame edges, and modest exposure variation across the scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel-memory transition, coastal geography cutaway, or period vacation atmosphere beat.
Historical context: The clip visually situates a compact seaside town between Atlantic-looking surf and inland hills, offering social context for leisure travel and coastal development without identifying a specific municipality.
Research note: People appear only as very small beach figures, but likeness, location, copyright, and any property concerns should still be reviewed separately for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1972 Portugal 8mm seaside town, vintage coastal holiday beach footage, terracotta rooftops by surf, and Portuguese beach resort home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Portugal 1972 coastal footage, then broader 1970s European beach holiday and seaside town material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Portugal 8mm frame showing a high-angle view over terracotta rooftops, beachfront buildings, a sandy shore, breaking waves, and green foothills. — Coastal town, beach, surf, and foothills from above.

1972 Portugal 8mm frame of a seaside town lining a broad beach, with white surf rolling in and dark green foothills beyond the rooftops. — Beachfront town with rolling surf and hills beyond.

1972 Portugal 8mm frame looking across a packed seaside town, a pale sand beach, foamy surf, and sloping green terrain inland. — Packed coastal rooftops beside a foamy shoreline.

1972 Portugal 8mm frame showing a coastal town between foaming surf and green foothills, with small people visible on the beach below. — Foaming surf below a hillside coastal town.

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