Batalha Monastery Portugal-1971: Pan Along Gothic Pinnacles to a Bronze Equestrian Statue

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationBatalha Monastery, Leiria, Portugal
Duration9s
Price$149 USD
Collection1971 · Batalha Monastery, Leiria, Portugal
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What is in this clip

Gothic architecture
national monuments
European travel
heritage tourism
Portuguese history
landmark reveal
1970s holiday

Shot type: wide
Camera: pan · handheld
Setting: outdoor · Grounds of a Gothic monastery with a monument, shrubs and distant wooded hills
Time and weather: day · summer · clear and sunny
Lighting: bright daylight, with the stone facade partly in shadow
People: 0 · No people are visible; the only figure is the bronze rider of the statue.
Landmarks: Batalha Monastery · Equestrian statue of Nuno Álvares Pereira
Objects: Gothic pinnacles · flying buttresses · pointed arch windows · openwork parapet · bronze equestrian statue · lance · stone plinth · leafy shrubs · trees
Colors: blue-violet · grey stone · dark green · pale sky blue
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: High

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Pinnacles, buttresses and pointed windows of the monastery flank fill the frame.
The pan moves right and the bronze rider enters at the edge of the frame.
The equestrian statue and its stone plinth stand against the sky, with hills behind.
The camera settles on the statue beside the end of the monastery.

Pan Along Gothic Pinnacles to a Bronze Equestrian Statue — Clip Details

Batalha Monastery, Portugal, circa 1971 home movie footage. The shot opens on the flank of the Gothic church, its pinnacles, openwork parapets, buttresses and tall pointed windows rising against a pale sky above leafy shrubs. The camera pans steadily right past the end of the building and its lower walls to the bronze equestrian statue of Nuno Álvares Pereira, a rider with a raised lance, on a pale stone plinth with wooded hills behind. It is a single handheld shot on colour small-gauge film with a strong blue cast.

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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: 9s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800002333

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

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Date: 1971 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
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Location: Batalha Monastery, Leiria, Portugal 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.
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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This clip meets requests for authentic early-1970s footage of a major Portuguese heritage site, useful for documentaries on Portugal, Gothic architecture or postwar European tourism.
Period detail: The statue, completed in 1968, fixes the earliest date, and the faded blue colour of the reversal stock fits amateur film of the early 1970s.
Home-movie behavior: A visitor on a coach tour sweeps the camera from the church to the statue, linking the medieval building and its new monument the way a tourist sees them on arrival.
What appears in frame: It shows the Gothic pinnacles and openwork parapets, heavy buttresses with tall pointed windows, the lower end walls of the monastery, a bronze rider with a raised lance on a pale plinth, leafy shrubs in the foreground and wooded hills under a clear sky.
Film character: Colour small-gauge film captured from projection, with a cool blue-violet cast, deep shadows on the stonework, visible grain and a few dust specks that give a period travel texture.
Edit role: It works as an establishing shot or landmark reveal for a Batalha sequence, or as a transition from architectural detail to the commemorative statue.
Historical context: The checked facts date Leopoldo de Almeida's statue of Nuno Álvares Pereira to 1966–1968, so the clip shows the monument only a few years after it was placed before the monastery.
Research note: No people appear; the statue is a modern work by a sculptor who died in the 1970s and may still be under copyright, so check its use separately from the rights in this footage.
Research search match: Researchers might search for Batalha Monastery 1970s home movie, equestrian statue Nuno Álvares Pereira film, vintage Portugal travel footage or Gothic monastery pan on small-gauge colour film.
Archive pairing path: Pair it first with the Batalha tracery arches with tourists on the lawn and the Manueline doorway with a tour group from this reel, then with the Fátima pilgrim crowd and the Alcobaça facade, then with other European cathedral and monument footage.

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Pinnacled Gothic flank of Batalha Monastery, Portugal, in bright sun, circa 1971 — Gothic pinnacles, openwork parapets and buttresses on the flank of Batalha Monastery, circa 1971.
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Equestrian statue of Nuno Álvares Pereira entering the frame beside Batalha Monastery, Portugal, circa 1971 — As the camera pans right, the bronze equestrian statue comes into view beside the monastery.
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Statue of Nuno Álvares Pereira on its plinth with Batalha Monastery to the left, Portugal, circa 1971 — The bronze horseman on a pale plinth, with the Gothic church on the left and hills on the horizon.
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End of the pan at Batalha Monastery, Portugal, circa 1971, with the bronze horseman set against open sky — The pan ends on the equestrian monument in front of Batalha Monastery, set against the open sky.
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