Greece-1976: Ancient Temple Ruins On Cliff Overlooking The Sea

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Year1976
Decade1970s
LocationGreece
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1976 Greece

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Ancient Temple Ruins On Cliff Overlooking The Sea — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Greece in 1976, capturing ancient ruins perched on a dramatic cliff overlooking the deep blue sea. The clip opens with a man in a light-colored checkered shirt walking near weathered stone walls, then pans to reveal classical columns of a temple atop the rocky outcrop. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic frame borders of Super 8 footage, evoking a nostalgic, personal travel memory. The camera moves across the rugged landscape, emphasizing the timeless beauty of the archaeological site against the vast ocean horizon.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 121479468

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: 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1970s editorial requests for Greek travel, archaeological sightseeing, and ancient ruins set against a coastal landscape.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, handheld framing, and tourist viewpoint support a 1976 home-movie context in Greece, with no visible modern signage in these frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, moving across stone walls, columns, cliff rock, and sea rather than presenting a staged archaeological view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pale stone architecture, classical columns, rough cliff faces, a sloped stone path, deep blue sea, horizon line, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm grain, mild color fading, uneven exposure, handheld movement, and visible frame edges that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short travel insert, coastal ruins cutaway, memory beat, or transition between Greece itinerary scenes.
Historical context: The images reflect mid-1970s tourist attention to ancient Greek ruins and coastal scenery without making a specific landmark claim from the frames alone.
Research note: People are flagged elsewhere in the clip, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location access, and property issues should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1970s Greece 8mm ruins by sea, Greek temple columns on cliff, vintage home movie archaeology, and coastal ancient ruins.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Greece 1976 travel footage, then broader ancient ruins, cliffs, sea, and archaeological tourism themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1976 Greece home-movie frame showing pale stone ruins and columns on a cliff edge overlooking deep blue water. — Stone walls and classical columns sit near a rocky coastal drop-off.

Handheld 8mm view of Greek coastal ruins, with columned stonework above a rugged cliff and sea beyond. — The camera frames columned ruins at the cliff edge with open water behind.

Soft 8mm frame from Greece showing weathered cliff rock beneath stone ruins, with the sea partly visible at right. — Weathered rock dominates the lower cliff below the coastal ruin site.

1976 Greece travel footage frame showing a sloped stone surface, rugged cliff rocks, and dark sea below the ruins. — A sloped stone path leads toward rough cliff rock above the water.

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