Mexico City-1962: Driving to Modern House on Suburban Street

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationMexico City, Mexico
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 Mexico City

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Driving to Modern House on Suburban Street — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban street in Mexico City. The camera moves forward along a paved road, revealing a modern two-story house with a balcony and large windows. Lush green gardens with shrubs and small trees line the property, and a concrete curb runs alongside the road. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics—vibrant yet slightly faded colors, noticeable grain, and a distinct blue tint. This archival clip evokes mid-century vintage nostalgia and is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or historical projects.

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: 123685651

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 1835 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: pyramid,university city,$80000 house,floating gardens
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: dallas,mexico city
Date: 1962 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Mexico City, Mexico Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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: 1960s Mexico City home-movie road footage for productions needing a brief suburban approach, residential exterior, or mid-century travel insert.
Period detail: The modern two-story house, balcony railings, paved road, planted garden, and 8mm color palette may show early-1960s suburban residential style.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, moving slowly up a quiet road toward a house without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a paved road, concrete curb, two-story house, balcony, large windows, garden beds, shrubs, and small trees.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows blue-tinted color, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and gate edges that preserve its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short approach insert, travel transition, residential cutaway, or memory beat within a Mexico City sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for a quiet residential street and landscaped modern house in Mexico City during the early 1960s.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are evident, but copyright and any property-identification concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1960s Mexico City suburb, 8mm home movie house exterior, vintage road approach, and mid-century residential street.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1962 Mexico City exteriors, then broader vintage road, house, and suburban travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Mexico City 8mm frame showing a paved residential road approaching a two-story house with shrubs and a garden edge. — The camera approaches a quiet residential road leading toward a modern house.

Blue-tinted 8mm view of a Mexico City residential road with garden beds and a house visible at the top of the drive. — A curb and planted garden lead the viewer toward the house ahead.

1962 home-movie frame showing landscaped plants, a concrete curb, and a modern residential house in Mexico City. — The moving camera passes garden landscaping below the house exterior.

Blue-tinted 8mm frame of a Mexico City house with balcony, large windows, garden shrubs, and a roadside curb. — The house and landscaped slope fill the frame as the road continues beside it.

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