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Acapulco Mexico-1982: Footage Of A Woman In Glasses Looking At The Camera In

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  • Year1982
  • Decade1980s
  • LocationAcapulco, Mexico
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1982 Acapulco Mexico

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Footage Of A Woman In Glasses Looking At The Camera In — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Acapulco, Mexico, in 1982, showing a woman with curly hair and large sunglasses smiling at the camera. She wears a dark top and a patterned scarf, her expression joyful and relaxed against a textured purple-tinted wall. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, capturing a candid moment of 1980s nostalgia. The clip ends with the camera panning away, focusing on the wall texture, preserving the authentic feel of a personal memory.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution
4K restored master (MP4)
License
Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
121123349

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

  • 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
1982 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
Acapulco, 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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Topics & Keywords

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  • 1980s fashion
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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Fits editorial and documentary requests for 1980s vacation travel portrait footage; useful as a candid personal-memory insert in retrospectives about Mexico or early-1980s leisure culture.
Period detail
Oversized dark-tinted sunglasses and dark top with patterned neckline detail are consistent with early-1980s fashion; the 1982 date is supported by metadata.
Home-movie behavior
The woman's spontaneous smile and direct engagement with the camera suggest an unstaged tourist snapshot moment typical of personal vacation filmmaking.
What appears in frame
Smiling woman with curly dark hair, oversized dark-tinted sunglasses, dark top, patterned neckline, rough stucco wall background with purple-lavender color cast, film grain throughout.
Film character
A pronounced purple color shift, visible film grain, and motion blur during the pan-away are characteristic of aged 8mm home-movie stock, lending authentic period texture.
Edit role
Functions as a candid portrait insert or memory-beat cutaway in travel, nostalgia, or personal-history documentary sequences; the pan-away provides a natural transition out.
Historical context
Acapulco was a prominent international resort destination in the early 1980s; home-movie vacation footage from this era documents middle-class leisure travel culture of the period.
Research note
An identifiable adult face is clearly visible across two frames; editorial use requires independent likeness rights assessment — copyright ownership rests with the original filmmaker.
Research search match
Researchers may look for 1980s Mexico vacation footage, home movie woman portrait sunglasses, candid 8mm travel film Latin America, or vintage tourist portrait 1982.
Archive pairing path
Best paired with other clips from the same Acapulco 1982 reel, then with 1980s Mexico travel footage, then with candid home-movie portrait moments of women on vacation.

Still Frames From This Clip

Woman with curly hair and oversized dark sunglasses smiling at the camera, likely Acapulco Mexico circa 1982, on 8mm film with strong purple color cast.
Woman smiling at camera, Acapulco, 1982.
Woman with oversized dark sunglasses smiling as camera begins to pan away, motion blur visible, Acapulco Mexico circa 1982, 8mm film.
Woman with sunglasses as camera begins to pan, 1982.
Textured stucco wall with purple 8mm film color shift after camera pans off the subject, Acapulco Mexico circa 1982.
Textured wall after camera pan, 1982.
Close view of rough stucco wall with purple 8mm color shift at the end of the pan sequence, Acapulco Mexico circa 1982.
Stucco wall texture, end of clip, 1982.

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