Manaus Brazil-1979: Two Friends In Front Of A Lake As The Sun Sets

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Year1979
Decade1970s
LocationManaus, Brazil
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1979 Brazil

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Two Friends In Front Of A Lake As The Sun Sets — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1979, this vintage home movie captures a serene sunset over a tropical river in Manaus, Brazil. Silhouetted palm trees line the distant shore as warm golden light reflects across the water. Two friends appear in the foreground, standing on the sandy bank, watching the sky turn from orange to deep purple. The film shows natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic frame borders of a Super 8 home movie, evoking a strong sense of nostalgia and personal memory from the late 1970s.

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: 124549060

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: 1979 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: Manaus, Brazil 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

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: 1970s 8mm home-movie sunset footage from Manaus, Brazil, useful for documentary inserts about travel, memory, tropical waterways, or reflective personal moments.
Period detail: The soft 8mm color, gate borders, and casual riverside viewpoint support a late-1970s home-movie feel, with no visible landmarks or dated signage in the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged observer's view as companions stand near the water and watch the sunset, giving the scene a private travel-memory quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a glowing sunset sky, dark treeline, palm silhouettes, rippling water, shoreline, small boat shape, film frame borders, and shadowed figures near the bank.
Film character: The footage shows warm color fading, heavy dusk exposure, soft focus, visible grain, dust marks, and slight handheld instability typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet transition, memory beat, location cutaway, or contemplative insert between brighter travel or family scenes.
Historical context: The frames show a leisure or travel moment by water in Manaus in 1979, emphasizing sunset atmosphere rather than identifiable urban or historical detail.
Research note: People appear as dark, mostly indistinct foreground figures, so likeness review may still be needed; copyright, location, and personal-release questions remain separate.
Research search match: Useful matches include 1979 Manaus 8mm sunset, Brazil home movie riverbank, tropical water at dusk, friends watching sunset, and vintage travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Manaus 1979 travel footage, then broader 1970s Brazil waterways, sunset, and home-movie memory scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1979 8mm home-movie view of a warm sunset over water in Manaus, Brazil, with palm silhouettes and dark shoreline. — Golden dusk light reflects across the water beneath a silhouetted tropical shore.

Manaus, Brazil 8mm frame showing sunset light over a tropical waterway, with a dark shore and small boat-like silhouette near the bank. — A dark shoreline and small boat-like form sit below the glowing sunset sky.

1979 Manaus home-movie frame with a silhouetted person at the riverbank as sunset color spreads over the water and treeline. — A shadowed companion stands near the bank while dusk light reflects on the water.

Manaus, Brazil 8mm home-movie frame showing two shadowed friends near the water as the sunset glows behind palm silhouettes. — Two shadowed figures stand by the water as the sunset deepens over the tropical shore.

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