Greece-1976: Men In Traditional Costumes Marching In A Ceremonial Parade

Year1976
Decade1970s
LocationGreece
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1976 Greece

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Men In Traditional Costumes Marching In A Ceremonial Parade — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Greece in 1976 captures a traditional parade with men in white folk costumes marching in formation down a city street. The performers wear white pleated skirts, dark vests, and red fez-style hats, carrying rifles as they march in unison. The scene unfolds in an urban setting with mid-century apartment buildings in the background, viewed through the characteristic grain and color palette of Super 8 film. The footage shows a ceremonial procession with a crowd of onlookers, offering a nostalgic glimpse of Greek cultural tradition and public celebration from the 1970s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121474614

Rights & Clearance

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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 1240 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: jesus walked here,holyland,garden tomb,dead sea scrolls,abraham tomb,sea of galliee,part 2
Reel-level year note: 1976
Reel-level location note: israel,athens greece
Date: 1976 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Greece Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Serves documentary requests for 1970s Greek ceremonial or cultural-identity footage, well suited to Balkan/Mediterranean history segments, ethnographic productions, or national-identity montages.
Period detail: White foustanella pleated skirts, dark waistcoats, and leg wrappings consistent with traditional Evzone-style dress; mid-century apartment blocks and overhead tram wires point to a 1970s Greek urban setting.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from a fixed or slowly panning street-level vantage, capturing a large ceremonial column passing by — a visitor recording a public spectacle rather than a staged or commissioned production.
What appears in frame: Rows of men in white pleated foustanella skirts and dark vests march in tight formation, wide city boulevard, mid-century apartment blocks on both sides, overhead tram or trolley wires, pale hazy sky, purple-shifted film exposure, and visible grain.
Film character: A pronounced purple-blue color shift and coarse grain are typical of aged 8mm stock; slight sky overexposure and mild handheld instability authenticate this as original home-movie material rather than broadcast footage.
Edit role: Functions as a ceremonial atmosphere cutaway or period-establishing insert in segments covering 1970s Greek culture, national celebration, or post-junta public life.
Historical context: Evzone-style ceremonial dress is associated with Greek national observances; a parade of this scale on a wide urban boulevard may reflect a national-holiday procession in mid-1970s Greece.
Research note: Multiple identifiable faces are visible throughout; likeness rights for parade participants were not cleared at time of filming. Flags or insignia visible in frame may carry institutional marks — verify before commercial broadcast use.
Research search match: Researchers may search for Greek parade 1970s, Evzone ceremonial march, traditional costume procession Super 8, or Greece national holiday home-movie footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same reel; then Greece 1970s street or ceremony footage; then broader European national-day or ceremonial parade footage from the same decade.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close view of Evzone-style ceremonial marchers in white pleated skirts and dark vests, filmed on 8mm in Greece circa 1976, with a large modern building in the background. — Ceremonial marchers in traditional Greek foustanella dress, Greece 1976.

Extended column of Evzone-style ceremonial marchers in white foustanella stretching across a wide open area, filmed on 8mm in Greece circa 1976. — Formation of traditional-costume marchers filling the parade ground, Greece 1976.

Ceremonial parade column in white traditional dress moving along a wide Greek city boulevard, circa 1976, with mid-century buildings and overhead tram wires framing the march. — Parade column on wide city boulevard with mid-century apartment blocks, Greece 1976.

Long ceremonial parade column in white Evzone-style dress on a wide Greek city boulevard, circa 1976, with multi-story buildings and overhead wires framing the procession. — Full ceremonial parade column stretching down a wide Greek city street, 1976.

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