Mexico City-1962: Modernist Campus With Connecting Walkways, Pool, and People

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

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Modernist Campus With Connecting Walkways, Pool, and People — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage footage captures a modernist campus in Mexico City, viewed through a window frame. The clip reveals a striking low-rise building with flat roofs and connecting walkways set amidst expansive green lawns and mature trees. A group of people stands on a wide staircase near a swimming pool, while others move across the grounds. The warm, slightly faded colors and film grain evoke a nostalgic mid-century atmosphere, offering authentic archival footage of 1960s architecture and daily life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 123685864

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 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: Useful for productions seeking 1960s Mexico City campus architecture, modernist educational settings, or archival travel footage with visible public activity.
Period detail: The flat roofs, open walkways, broad stairs, poolside setting, and color 8mm look may show mid-century institutional design in Mexico City.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective, observing people on stairs and walkways from above through a dark window or frame edge.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a swimming pool, wide staircase, low modernist buildings, connecting walkways, lawns, trees, railings, and small groups of people.
Film character: The clip carries a handheld 8mm texture with soft focus, visible grain, slight color fade, and dark frame edges from the original film scan.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short establishing cutaway, architectural insert, travel-memory beat, or transition into a 1960s Mexico City campus sequence.
Historical context: The view documents landscaped grounds and modernist low-rise architecture with people moving through the campus environment, without identifying the institution.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, likeness, and property issues should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1962 Mexico City 8mm campus footage, modernist architecture home movie, pool and walkway campus, and mid-century Mexico travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1962 Mexico City material, then broader modernist campus or urban travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Mexico City 8mm view of people on broad stairs near a pool, with lawns and a low modernist campus building beyond. — People gather on stairs beside a pool and landscaped campus grounds.

1962 Mexico City campus view through a dark frame, showing flat roofs, connecting walkways, lawns, and mature trees. — Modernist campus buildings and walkways stretch across landscaped grounds.

1962 Mexico City 8mm frame showing a low campus building, exterior stairs, open lawn, trees, and distant landscape. — A low modernist building sits among lawns and trees on the campus grounds.

1962 Mexico City campus scene with flat-roofed buildings, exterior stairs, lawns, and trees seen from an elevated viewpoint. — Elevated view of flat-roofed campus buildings connected by walkways.

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