Mexico City-1962: Admiring The View Of The House On Top Of The Hill From The

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

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Admiring The View Of The House On Top Of The Hill From The — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched view of a modern house perched atop a hill in Mexico City. The camera pans across a sloped garden with lush greenery and a concrete driveway leading to a carport. The house features a prominent balcony, large windows, and a distinctive pink and white facade. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 color shifts with a strong blue and purple tint, characteristic of 1960s home movies, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century residential life.

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: 123685681

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 footage for productions needing a brief residential exterior, hillside driveway, or mid-century urban domestic cutaway.
Period detail: The modern balcony, large windows, carport, and pink-and-white facade may show mid-century residential design visible in the 1962 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, pausing to admire a house above a sloped garden from the driveway below.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a hillside house, balcony railing, large windows, pink facade panels, sloped garden, rock edging, concrete driveway, and carport.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight handheld movement, and blue-purple color shift typical of aged home-movie stock.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a short exterior insert, location-establishing cutaway, driveway transition, or quiet memory beat.
Historical context: The view documents an upper-slope residential setting in Mexico City, emphasizing garden landscaping and automobile-oriented access without showing people.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are visible or noted, but the identifiable residence and property exterior may still require rights and property review.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1960s Mexico City house exterior, 8mm hillside residence, mid-century garden driveway, and vintage home movie carport.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Mexico City exteriors, then broader mid-century residential and garden footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Mexico City home-movie frame showing a modern hillside house, balcony, garden, rock edging, and sloped driveway. — A modern house sits above a planted slope and concrete driveway.

1962 Mexico City frame of a pink-and-white hillside residence with balcony, garden beds, and a driveway rising at right. — The camera holds on the house facade and landscaped slope.

1962 Mexico City home-movie view of the residence, balcony, pink facade, dense plantings, and driveway leading uphill. — The landscaped front slope fills the foreground below the balcony.

1962 Mexico City frame showing the hillside house, planted garden, driveway, and carport at the right edge. — A long driveway leads past the garden toward a carport beside the house.

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