Greece-1976: Large Hotel In The Centre Of The City

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Year1976
Decade1970s
LocationGreece
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1976 Greece

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Large Hotel In The Centre Of The City — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Greece in 1976, showing the King George Hotel in a city center. The clip features a large, modernist hotel building with distinctive balconies and illuminated windows, surrounded by trees and outdoor seating areas. The camera pans across the structure, capturing its architectural details and urban setting. The footage has a warm, faded color palette typical of 1970s film, with visible grain and slight vignetting, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century Greek urban life and 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: 121474629

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: 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 (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Greece Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Fills 1970s Greek urban and tourism documentary slots as an establishing architecture or city-centre insert for docs on postwar Mediterranean travel or mid-century Greek modernism.
Period detail: Multi-story hotel facade with horizontal banded architecture and outdoor café umbrellas; vehicles partially visible at street level may help narrow the date within the decade.
Home-movie behavior: Camera pans across the hotel as a tourist records a notable landmark, delivering an unscripted ambient snapshot of Athenian city-centre street life circa 1976.
What appears in frame: Large multi-story hotel with readable roofline signage, rows of windows, blue outdoor café umbrellas, mature street trees, wide paved plaza, central fountain, a neoclassical civic building in the background, and one pedestrian.
Film character: Warm amber cast with visible grain and edge vignetting typical of 8mm colour stock from the 1970s, lending the footage a soft period-authentic texture well suited to nostalgic or archival edits.
Edit role: Works as an establishing shot or cutaway in a 1970s Greece travel or history doc, and the plaza frame can serve as a contemplative transition or memory beat.
Historical context: The wide plaza view and neoclassical civic building visible in the final frame may show Syntagma Square in Athens; a location specialist should verify before asserting a specific address.
Research note: Hotel name is legible on the building facade, requiring trademark assessment; at least one person is visible in the plaza frame; consult rights counsel before commercial use.
Research search match: Researchers may search for 1970s Athens hotel, vintage Greece city centre, mid-century Mediterranean travel film, 8mm Greek urban architecture, or Syntagma Square archival footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same 1976 Greece reel, then with 1970s Athens street or plaza footage, then with archival Mediterranean tourism or Greek civic-space material.

Still Frames From This Clip

King George Hotel facade in Athens, Greece, circa 1976, showing modernist banded architecture, rows of illuminated upper windows, and outdoor café seating below street trees. — King George Hotel façade, Athens city centre, 1976.

King George Hotel, Athens, 1976 — panned view showing the full horizontal extent of the modernist facade with legible roofline signage and outdoor café seating. — Hotel facade pan showing full building width, Athens, 1976.

Angled view of the hotel in Athens, Greece, circa 1976, showing the multi-story modernist facade, ground-level outdoor seating with blue umbrellas, and mature trees. — Hotel at oblique angle with outdoor café area, Athens, 1976.

Wide view of what appears to be a central Athens plaza circa 1976, showing a fountain, a solitary pedestrian, outdoor café umbrellas, trees, and a neoclassical civic building in the background. — Open city plaza with fountain and neoclassical building in background, Athens, 1976.

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