Batalha Monastery Portugal-1971: Pan Across Gothic Tracery Cloister Arches as Tourists Gather on the Lawn

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationBatalha Monastery, Leiria, Portugal
Duration8s
Price$149 USD
Collection1971 · Batalha Monastery, Leiria, Portugal
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1971 · Spain & Portugal · Reel d30ef955 contains 13 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

Gothic architecture
heritage tourism
group travel
monastic cloister
1970s fashion
Portuguese history

Shot type: wide
Camera: pan · handheld
Setting: outdoor · Cloister garden of a Gothic monastery with a traceried arcade, clipped box hedges, a lawn and a tall cypress
Time and weather: midday · summer · sunny
Lighting: bright direct sunlight with hard shadows
People: 12 · A man in a dark green top walks across the lawn, and a group of about ten tourists in pink, red, yellow, blue and beige clothing stands and gathers on the grass in the distance.
Landmarks: Batalha Monastery
Objects: pointed Gothic arches · stone tracery screens · pinnacles · cypress tree · box hedges · lawn · gravel path
Colors: blue-violet · green · white · yellow · pink
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: High

Moments in the footage

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Three traceried Gothic arches stand above clipped hedges and a sunlit path.
The pan brings a tall cypress and a man walking on the lawn into view.
A group of tourists in brightly coloured clothes gathers on the grass.
The pan ends at a paler carved corner of the cloister.

Pan Across Gothic Tracery Cloister Arches as Tourists... — Clip Details

Batalha Monastery, Portugal, circa 1971 home movie footage. The camera starts on three pointed cloister arches filled with lace-like stone tracery above clipped box hedges, then pans right past a tall cypress. A man in a dark green top walks across the lawn and a group of tourists in pink, red, yellow and blue clothing gathers on the grass below the arcade. Filmed handheld in bright sun on small-gauge colour film with a strong blue-violet cast.

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: 8s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800002334

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1971 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: 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.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Meets requests for early-1970s footage of foreign tourists at a historic Portuguese monastery, for documentaries on heritage, architecture or the growth of package travel.
Period detail: The tourists' saturated pink, yellow and red tops and casual summer clothes, together with the colour cast of the film stock, may show early-1970s holiday dress.
Home-movie behavior: A visitor pans slowly across the cloister to take in the stonework, and fellow tour members walk into frame on the lawn without paying attention to the camera.
What appears in frame: Three traceried Gothic arches, pinnacles along the parapet, clipped box hedges, a tall cypress, a man in a dark green top and a brightly dressed tour group on the grass.
Film character: The handheld small-gauge colour film has visible grain, a strong blue-violet cast over the stone and sky, and vivid green lawn tones from the bright sun.
Edit role: Use it as an establishing pan or architectural cutaway inside the monastery, or as a transition from exterior statue shots to the visitors.
Historical context: Batalha Monastery received a steady flow of visitors, and this clip shows a tour group exploring its cloister garden in the early 1970s.
Research note: No copyright interest attaches to the medieval building itself, but the film's copyright is separate from likeness: the small, distant tourists may be recognisable to people who know them, and filming inside the monastery grounds may fall under site rules.
Research search match: Batalha cloister home movie, Gothic tracery arches 1970s, tourists at Portuguese monastery, Portugal coach tour film circa 1971, vintage small-gauge travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair it first with the reel's Batalha Monastery and equestrian statue clip and the Manueline doorway with the tour group, then with the Alcobaça facade and the Fátima pilgrim crowd, then with other 1970s European heritage-tourism footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Traceried Gothic cloister arches at Batalha Monastery, Portugal, above clipped box hedges, circa 1971 — The cloister arcade at Batalha Monastery, with intricate stone tracery above trimmed hedges, circa 1971.
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A man walks across the lawn of Batalha Monastery's cloister beside a tall cypress, Portugal, circa 1971 — A visitor crosses the cloister lawn as the camera pans toward a tall cypress, circa 1971.
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Tour group in bright early-1970s clothing gathers on the cloister lawn at Batalha Monastery, Portugal, circa 1971 — A tour group in brightly coloured clothes gathers beneath the traceried arcade at Batalha, circa 1971.
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Tourists on the lawn of Batalha Monastery's Gothic cloister, a cypress and carved corner behind them, Portugal, circa 1971 — The pan ends on visitors gathered beneath the cloister arches and a carved stone corner, circa 1971.
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