Mazatlan Mexico-1972: Boat Approaching Island Town with Cross Atop Mountain

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

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Boat Approaching Island Town with Cross Atop Mountain — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from Mazatlan, Mexico, in 1972, showing a boat approaching a large mountainous island town. The clip captures a scenic coastal view with deep blue ocean waves in the foreground and a dramatic mountain range rising behind a densely built town. White buildings cling to the hillsides, and a prominent cross stands atop the highest peak. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a dark border, conveying a nostalgic, authentic home movie feel from the early 1970s.

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: 120914062

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.

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 visitor-shot coastal Mazatlan, Mexico footage from a boat approaching a mountainous shoreline town.
Period detail: The 1972 home-movie metadata is supported by the 8mm look, with visible era clues limited to low-rise coastal buildings, hillside development, and a prominent hilltop cross.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged tourist perspective from a moving vessel, holding on the shoreline as the boat approaches across open water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include deep blue ocean, rocky shoreline, hillside buildings, mountainous background, scattered greenery, a tall white structure, and a hilltop cross.
Film character: The footage has strong 8mm texture with soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, handheld motion from the boat, and dark film-frame borders.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a coastal establishing insert, travel transition, harbor approach cutaway, or memory beat in a Mexico vacation sequence.
Historical context: The view documents leisure travel and coastal urban scenery as seen by a visitor in 1972, without showing identifiable people or specific public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still evaluate copyright status and any recognizable buildings, monuments, or shoreline property separately.
Research search match: Relevant search phrases include 1972 Mazatlan 8mm boat approach, Mexico coastal home movie, mountainous island town shoreline, ocean waves and hilltop cross, and vintage vacation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other Mazatlan 1972 coastal views, and then with broader 1970s Mexico tourism, boat travel, and seaside landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Mazatlan, Mexico 8mm frame showing open blue water in the foreground and a distant town backed by rugged mountains. — Distant Mazatlan shoreline seen from the water.

1972 Mazatlan coastal view from a moving boat, with rippled ocean water, distant buildings, and mountains behind the shoreline. — Coastal town and mountains across the water.

1972 Mazatlan 8mm frame showing a closer rocky shoreline with hillside buildings, trees, and a prominent white cross near the top of the ridge. — Hillside shoreline with cross above the coast.

1972 Mazatlan shoreline from the boat, with blue water below a rocky coast and white hillside buildings among dark green vegetation. — Hillside buildings above the rocky coast.

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