Mazatlan Mexico-1972: Beach Resort On A Sunny Day

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

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Beach Resort On A Sunny Day — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Mazatlan, Mexico, in 1972, capturing a sun-drenched beach resort. The clip shows a turquoise swimming pool surrounded by lounge chairs and umbrellas, with tall palm trees swaying in the breeze. In the background, a sandy beach meets the blue ocean, with small boats visible on the water. People relax by the pool and on the beach, enjoying a classic tropical vacation. The footage exhibits the characteristic grain, color saturation, and slight instability of 8mm film, offering authentic retro nostalgia.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120913914

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1972 8mm home-movie clip supports archival requests for 1970s Mexican beach resort travel, vacation atmosphere, and editorial cutaways of poolside leisure near the ocean.
Period detail: The saturated 8mm color, resort pool furniture, umbrellas, palm landscaping, and small boats offshore may show early 1970s leisure travel style in Mazatlan, Mexico.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective from above the resort grounds, observing swimmers, lounge chairs, palms, beach, and water without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a curved turquoise swimming pool, palm trees, lounge chairs, umbrellas, sandy beach, blue ocean, small boats, and vacationers around the pool area.
Film character: The clip carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, saturated color, gate edges, and slight handheld instability that identify it as scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel-memory beat, tropical vacation cutaway, or transition into a 1970s Mexico resort sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a leisure setting where resort architecture, poolside furniture, beach access, and ocean recreation frame middle-class tourist experience in the early 1970s.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed, while no clear logos are visible and copyright, location, and property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1970s Mazatlan beach resort 8mm, Mexico vacation home movie, poolside palm trees ocean view, and vintage travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Mazatlan or Mexico 1972 travel footage, and then broader 1970s beach resort and vacation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Mazatlan, Mexico 8mm frame showing an elevated resort view with a curved turquoise pool, palm trees, beach, blue ocean, and small boats offshore. — Pool, palms, beach, and ocean seen from above.

Elevated 1972 Mazatlan resort view with palm trees, poolside seating, a curved swimming pool, sandy beach, and boats on the ocean. — Palm-lined resort pool beside the beach.

1972 Mazatlan home-movie frame showing swimmers in a curved resort pool, palm trees, umbrellas, lounge chairs, and the beach just beyond the deck. — Swimmers and lounge chairs at the resort pool.

Elevated 1972 Mazatlan resort shot with a bright curved pool, distant swimmers, palm trees, umbrellas, poolside seating, and beach area near the ocean. — Bright pool and palms at a Mazatlan resort.

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