Mazatlan Mexico-1972: Paragliding Over Ocean Into Ocean

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

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Paragliding Over Ocean Into Ocean — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Mazatlan, Mexico, 1972, showing a person paragliding over the ocean. A bright yellow parachute descends toward the rocky coastline, with waves crashing against the shore. The clip captures the thrill of the sport against a backdrop of blue water and rugged cliffs, showcasing the era's adventurous spirit. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color saturation, and slight motion blur, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical projects.

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: 120913350

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: 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

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: Useful for 1970s travel, recreation, and adventure-sport archive requests needing brief home-movie footage of paragliding or parachute descent over a coastal Mexican setting.
Period detail: The footage may show early 1970s leisure-sport tourism through the visible round yellow parachute, rocky shoreline, saturated blue sea, and handheld 8mm framing.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the visitor-shot perspective following a distant airborne person as the parachute drifts over water toward a rugged shore.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a yellow parachute canopy, a small suspended person, blue ocean water, white surf, dark offshore rocks, rocky cliffs, and sparse coastal vegetation.
Film character: The clip has a saturated 8mm home-movie look with soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, slight blur, and uneven exposure that reads as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, travel-memory beat, recreation cutaway, or transition between beach, vacation, and adventure-sport sequences.
Historical context: The scene reflects leisure activity filmed from a distance along a coastal landscape, without enough visible detail to identify the participant or the exact launch or landing site.
Research note: A person is visible but not identifiable in the frames, so users should separately assess copyright status, likeness risk, and any location or activity permissions for their intended use.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1970s Mazatlan home movie paragliding, 8mm Mexico coastal vacation footage, yellow parachute over ocean, and vintage water recreation film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Mazatlan travel footage, then with other 1972 Mexico coastal scenes, and then with broader vintage vacation or aerial recreation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Mazatlan, Mexico, 1972, a yellow parachute carries a distant person over blue water beside rocks and surf in soft 8mm footage. — Parachute descending near rocky shoreline.

A coastal view in the Mazatlan 1972 home movie shows blue water, rocks, surf, and the edge of a yellow parachute entering the upper frame. — Coastline below the parachute path.

The yellow parachute drifts across the upper frame above the rugged Mazatlan shoreline, with blue water and white surf below. — Parachute crossing above the rocks.

A yellow parachute with a distant person beneath it descends over blue water near the rocky Mazatlan coast in a brief 1972 8mm travel scene. — Parachutist nearing the coastal water.

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