Mazatlan Mexico-1972: Calm Ocean Approaching A Large City On A Clear Day

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationMazatlan, Mexico
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 Mazatlan Mexico

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Calm Ocean Approaching A Large City On A Clear Day — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Mazatlan, Mexico, in 1972, showing a sweeping aerial view of the coastal city. The camera pans across a calm blue ocean meeting a sandy beach, with modern high-rise hotels and buildings lining the shore. Lush green mountains rise in the background under a clear sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color saturation, and slight vignetting, capturing a nostalgic mid-century tourism moment. The scene includes a prominent helipad on the beachfront, suggesting a resort area. This authentic archival footage offers a rare glimpse into 1970s Mexican coastal development and leisure culture.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120913252

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$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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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: 1972 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: Mazatlan, Mexico 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: Useful for 1970s documentary or educational requests needing an establishing view of Mazatlan's beachfront tourism corridor and coastal city setting.
Period detail: The high-rise seaside hotels, open beachfront lots, and visible helipad may show early-1970s resort development along the Mazatlan shoreline.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot aerial or elevated sightseeing perspective, valuing the coastline as a travel memory rather than a staged city portrait.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm blue ocean, a curving sandy beach, tall beachfront buildings, a marked helipad, low coastal hills, and clear sky.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, saturated blue tones, visible grain, slight vignetting, and minor frame instability typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, coastal cutaway, or memory beat before scenes of Mazatlan tourism.
Historical context: The view places leisure infrastructure beside beach and mountains, offering visual context for coastal tourism and urban development without identifying specific buildings.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright and any property-identification concerns should still be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1972 8mm Mazatlan Mexico beachfront footage, 1970s Mexican resort coast, aerial ocean approach, and vintage home movie tourism views.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1972 Mazatlan or Mexico travel footage, then broader 1970s beach tourism and coastal city material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Mazatlan home-movie frame showing calm blue water, a sandy shoreline, tall coastal hotels, a beachfront helipad, and hills under clear sky. — Beachfront high-rises and shoreline in Mazatlan.

1972 Mazatlan coastal view with a broad sandy beach, calm ocean, resort-like high-rises, a visible helipad, and mountainous background. — Coastline curving past beachfront buildings.

1972 Mazatlan frame looking along the beach and ocean toward hills, with tall shoreline buildings partly visible at the right edge. — Ocean and beach stretching toward hills.

1972 Mazatlan home-movie frame showing a wider ocean view, curved beach, distant coastal buildings, and hills under a clear blue sky. — Wide view of Mazatlan coastline and hills.

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