Mexico City-1962: Olympic Swimming Pool With Empty Bleachers And Striped Building

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

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Olympic Swimming Pool With Empty Bleachers And Striped... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage footage captures a sun-drenched view of an Olympic-sized swimming pool in Mexico City. Empty concrete bleachers line the pool, with a multi-story building featuring yellow and blue horizontal stripes in the background. Lush green trees dot the landscape, and a few cars pass on the adjacent road. The camera pans slowly, revealing the full scope of the aquatic facility under a bright sky, evoking a sense of mid-century urban planning and public recreation. The film’s grain and color saturation are characteristic of home movie footage from the era.

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: 123685887

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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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Topics & Keywords

sunny day
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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s Mexico City 8mm footage suited to documentary or educational requests for public recreation, urban facilities, and mid-century outdoor swimming venues.
Period detail: The striped multi-story building, broad roadway, concrete bleachers, and open pool complex may show early-1960s civic or recreational architecture in Mexico City.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, slowly observing the pool, bleachers, road, trees, and surrounding buildings rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a turquoise swimming pool, empty concrete bleachers, a wide road, trees, parked or passing cars, and striped mid-century buildings.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, bright sun exposure, and handheld framing that preserve a home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, location cutaway, transition, or quiet memory beat for public leisure and urban planning sequences.
Historical context: The footage documents an outdoor swimming facility within a built-up Mexico City setting, with road traffic and institutional-looking buildings around the pool.
Research note: People are flagged as visible, so likeness review may be needed even if faces are not clear; copyright, location, and property rights should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 Mexico City 8mm swimming pool, empty bleachers, outdoor aquatic facility, mid-century public recreation, and urban home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Mexico City 1962 material, then other 1960s pool, stadium, civic architecture, or recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Mexico City 8mm frame showing a turquoise pool, empty bleachers, trees, road traffic, and a striped multi-story building. — Wide view of an outdoor pool complex with empty bleachers and a striped building beyond the road.

1962 Mexico City frame with pool lanes, empty concrete seating, trees near the road, small cars, and a striped building in the background. — Pool lanes and empty stepped seating appear below roadside trees and a striped building.

1962 Mexico City 8mm view across a broad road toward an outdoor pool, empty bleachers, trees, cars, and low institutional buildings. — The camera angle opens to the road foreground while the pool and bleachers remain to the side.

Final 1962 Mexico City frame showing a broad roadway beside the pool corner, stepped bleachers, trees, and striped building facade. — A broader road view frames the pool corner and empty bleachers with buildings and trees behind.

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