Mexico City-1962: Large Outdoor Swimming Pool with Diving Platform

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

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Large Outdoor Swimming Pool with Diving Platform — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage footage captures a large outdoor swimming complex in Mexico City, featuring a long competition pool with lane dividers and a prominent diving platform. The scene is viewed from an elevated angle, showing a grassy park area and surrounding trees under bright sunlight. A small group of people stands near the pool deck, while empty bleachers are visible in one frame. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century public recreation.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123685939

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

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s Mexico City recreation, public swimming facilities, urban leisure, or mid-century outdoor sports cutaways in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The elevated view, large competition pool, diving platforms, open lawns, and sparse deck activity may show a mid-century public swimming complex in Mexico City.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot viewpoint from above, observing the pool complex and small groups on the deck without staged action or direct posing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include long pool lanes, turquoise water, diving platforms, pool deck, lawn, trees, bleachers, and small groups of people.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows saturated color, soft focus, gate edges, grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing consistent with home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, recreation cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into a sequence about public leisure.
Historical context: The clip documents outdoor swimming infrastructure and park-like recreational space, with people present at a distance rather than identifiable close-ups.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no visible logos, music, or private interiors are apparent from the frames.
Research search match: Search matches include 1962 Mexico City swimming pool, 8mm outdoor pool footage, vintage diving platform, and mid-century public recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Mexico City material, then broader vintage swimming or outdoor recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Mexico City 8mm view of a large outdoor pool complex with lane markings, diving platforms, grass, trees, and distant people. — Large outdoor swimming complex seen from above, with diving platforms and people near the pool deck.

Elevated 1962 Mexico City pool view showing turquoise water, diving platforms, lawn, trees, and distant figures by the deck. — Turquoise pool lanes and diving platforms are framed from an elevated visitor viewpoint.

1962 Mexico City 8mm frame looking across an outdoor swimming pool toward diving platforms, trees, lawn, and a deckside group. — Pool lanes dominate the foreground while a small group stands near the lower deck edge.

1962 Mexico City pool complex seen from above, with empty bleachers, swimming lanes, diving platforms, trees, and deck area. — Empty bleachers appear beside the pool, with diving platforms and lanes visible in bright sun.

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