Greece-1976: Religious Procession With Clergy Carrying Sacred Icon Up Stone Steps

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Year1976
Decade1970s
LocationGreece
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1976 Greece

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Religious Procession With Clergy Carrying Sacred Icon Up... — Clip Details

Vibrant 1976 Greek religious procession captured on vintage 8mm film, showing clergy in ornate red, gold, and white vestments ascending stone steps outside a grand stone church. A sacred icon is carried in a golden ornate shrine, flanked by uniformed guards and solemn attendees. The footage exhibits authentic film grain, color fading, and slight camera shake, evoking a nostalgic, archival atmosphere. This authentic home movie captures a moment of cultural and spiritual significance, ideal for historical or religious documentaries.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121479072

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 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

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: Fits 1970s Greek Orthodox religious documentary needs; useful for segments on Mediterranean Christianity, Greek cultural traditions, or post-junta revival-era social history.
Period detail: Color saturation, film grain, and civilian dress (dark suits, casual wear) are consistent with mid-1970s Mediterranean Europe; clerical vestments suggest Greek Orthodox tradition.
Home-movie behavior: Eye-level bystander perspective and occasional motion blur suggest an amateur filmmaker attending the event, capturing the procession as a participant rather than a staged crew.
What appears in frame: Stone church steps, clergy in red and white vestments, a gilded portable icon shrine, uniformed honor guards, civilian attendees in dark suits, stone building facade, and a procession crowd.
Film character: 8mm stock shows moderate grain, a warm color shift toward red and orange, and handheld motion blur that together produce an authentic mid-1970s archival texture.
Edit role: Works as a cultural-color insert or establishing shot in a religious documentary; the icon-shrine close frames serve as detail cutaways within a liturgical sequence.
Historical context: The gilded portable icon shrine and ornate clerical vestments are consistent with Greek Orthodox feast-day or patronal processions; the footage may document a significant local religious event circa 1976.
Research note: Multiple adult faces are identifiable throughout the crowd and among clergy; uniformed figures require identification; likeness rights review is needed for any editorial or commercial use.
Research search match: Greek Orthodox procession 1970s archival footage, religious ceremony Greece vintage 8mm, icon procession Mediterranean clergy documentary.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with clips from the same original reel or filmmaker; then with other 1970s Greece footage; then with Orthodox religious ceremony or Mediterranean festival archival material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Greek Orthodox clergy in red and white vestments ascending wide stone steps toward a large stone church, Greece, circa 1976. — Clergy ascending stone steps during a religious procession.

Mixed group of clergy in red, purple, and gold vestments ascending stone steps toward a church doorway, Greece, circa 1976. — Procession nearing the church entrance with vestments in multiple liturgical colors.

Gilded portable icon shrine surrounded by clergy in red vestments and uniformed honor guards during a Greek Orthodox procession, circa 1976. — Golden icon shrine carried amid clergy and honor guard.

Navy-uniformed honor guards escort a gilded portable icon shrine past a stone building during a Greek Orthodox procession, Greece, circa 1976. — Uniformed honor guard escorting the icon shrine past the church.

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