Mazatlan Mexico-1972: Poolside at Resort with Swimmers and Rafts

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

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Poolside at Resort with Swimmers and Rafts — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Mazatlan, Mexico, in 1972, capturing a luxurious resort poolside scene. The high-angle shots reveal a winding turquoise pool surrounded by lush palm trees and rows of lounge chairs. Guests relax on inflatable rafts and swim in the clear water, embodying 1970s leisure and tropical tourism. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, warm color saturation, and slight motion blur, offering authentic archival footage of a classic Mexican vacation.

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: 120913924

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 clip supports 1970s travel, leisure, and resort-tourism sequences needing authentic 8mm vacation footage from Mazatlan, Mexico.
Period detail: The pool furniture, inflatable rafts, saturated color, and elevated tourist viewpoint may show early-1970s resort leisure consistent with the supplied 1972 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged value of a vacationer filming from above as swimmers drift, lounge, and move through the pool area without performing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a curving turquoise swimming pool, palm trees, lounge chairs, sun umbrellas, swimmers, inflatable rafts, pool edging, and dense tropical planting.
Film character: The scan shows physical 8mm texture through soft focus, visible grain, high-contrast shadows, saturated water color, and slight handheld or projection movement.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, tropical vacation cutaway, leisure transition, or memory beat within a 1970s travel sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents visitor-oriented poolside recreation at a Mexican resort setting, emphasizing sun tourism, landscaped leisure space, and casual vacation behavior.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed, while no clear logos or readable brands are visible and copyright clearance remains separate from appearance or property considerations.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches include 1972 Mazatlan vacation pool, 1970s Mexico resort home movie, 8mm tropical tourism footage, and vintage poolside leisure scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Mazatlan or Mexico footage from 1972, and then with broader 1970s resort, vacation, pool, and tourism material.

Still Frames From This Clip

High-angle 1972 Mazatlan vacation view of a turquoise resort pool bordered by palms, lounge seating, umbrellas, swimmers, and inflatable rafts. — Curving resort pool seen from above with swimmers and lounge seating.

Elevated 1972 Mazatlan resort-pool view showing swimmers and rafts in clear blue water, with palms and lounge chairs around the deck. — Swimmers and rafts in a palm-lined resort pool.

1972 Mazatlan home-movie frame of a curving resort pool section with drifting rafts, a swimmer, palm fronds, and landscaped planting beside the water. — Rafts drift across a curved section of the resort pool.

High-angle 1972 Mazatlan vacation frame showing a shaded corner of the resort pool with a raft, swimmers, palms, rocks, and tropical landscaping. — Shaded pool edge with palms, rocks, and swimmers below.

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