San Salvador El Salvador-1978: Tilt From a Shopping-Centre Sign Up to a Script Rooftop Restaurant Sign

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Year1978
Decade1970s
LocationSan Salvador, El Salvador
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1978 · San Salvador, El Salvador
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

commercial signage
1970s retail architecture
Central American city life
holiday travel
Spanish-language lettering
pre-civil-war El Salvador

Shot type: medium
Camera: tilt · handheld
Setting: outdoor · urban commercial building facade with rooftop signage
Time and weather: day · winter · clear
Lighting: natural daylight, flat and slightly hazy
People: 0 · No people visible.
Landmarks: Centro Comercial Condominio Balam Quitze
Objects: curved shopping-centre signboard · rooftop script sign · partly hidden shop panel · cone-shaped stone feature · glass window band · metal railing · patterned block facade · green shrub
Readable signs: CENTRO COMERCIAL CONDOMINIO · BALAM QUITZE · 7 Mares · ntempo (partly hidden)
Colors: blue-violet · white · muted red · pale blue
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: High

Moments in the footage

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The curved Centro Comercial Condominio Balam Quitze signboard fills the lower frame.
The camera begins tilting up past the 'ntempo' panel and the glass upper floor.
The script '7 Mares' lettering enters at the top of the frame.
The tilt settles on the 7 Mares rooftop sign against the sky.
The shot holds on the 7 Mares lettering above the railed facade.

Tilt From a Shopping-Centre Sign Up to a Script Rooftop... — Clip Details

San Salvador, El Salvador, circa 1978 home movie footage. The shot opens on the curved white sign of the Centro Comercial Condominio Balam Quitze, with a partly hidden 'ntempo' shop panel and a cone-shaped stone feature behind it. The camera then tilts up past a patterned block facade and a railed glass upper floor to the script '7 Mares' rooftop lettering against a pale blue sky. It is filmed handheld on Super 8 in one continuous take, with a strong blue-violet colour cast.

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: 800001273

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People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1978 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: San Salvador, El Salvador 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Serves requests for late-1970s San Salvador street and retail imagery, useful as a period cutaway in documentaries on El Salvador or Central American travel.
Period detail: The faded colour stock, script rooftop lettering and perforated block facade may show late-1970s commercial design in San Salvador.
Home-movie behavior: A visitor's camera reads the shop and restaurant names in one deliberate upward tilt, the way a tourist records where they ate or shopped.
What appears in frame: A curved white shopping-centre signboard, a cone-shaped stone feature, a partly hidden 'ntempo' panel, a railed band of glass windows, a patterned block facade and the script 7 Mares sign against the sky.
Film character: Super 8 grain, mild softness and a heavy blue-violet colour shift give the shot a clearly period, hand-held projected-film texture.
Edit role: Works as an establishing insert or cutaway for a San Salvador sequence, or as a transition into a restaurant or dinner scene.
Historical context: The shot records named businesses in San Salvador from a holiday reel likely shot shortly before the civil war that began in 1979 cut tourism sharply.
Research note: No people appear; business names and stylised lettering may carry trademark interests, and the building is private commercial property, separate from the film's own copyright.
Research search match: San Salvador 1970s Super 8, El Salvador shopping centre vintage footage, 7 Mares restaurant sign archive, Central America travel home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the reel's Puerta del Diablo woman and the restaurant dinner, then with other San Salvador signage of the same trip, then with the Avenida Central neon signs in San José.

Still Frames From This Clip

Balam Quitze shopping-centre sign in San Salvador, El Salvador, circa 1978, with a partly hidden 'ntempo' shop panel behind. — The Centro Comercial Condominio Balam Quitze sign, San Salvador, circa 1978, on faded Super 8 film.
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Mid-tilt view of the Balam Quitze shopping-centre facade in San Salvador, circa 1978, with the 7 Mares lettering appearing above. — The camera tilts up the shopping-centre facade toward the rooftop lettering, San Salvador, circa 1978.
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Script 7 Mares restaurant lettering rising above a San Salvador shopping-centre facade, circa 1978, in a blue-violet colour cast. — The 7 Mares rooftop lettering comes into view above the shopping centre, San Salvador, circa 1978.
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7 Mares rooftop restaurant sign against the sky in San Salvador, El Salvador, circa 1978, on faded Super 8 colour film. — The script 7 Mares rooftop sign, San Salvador, circa 1978, where the tilt comes to rest.
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