Mexico City-1962: Building Adorned with Tiki-Inspired Mural

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

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Building Adorned with Tiki-Inspired Mural — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage footage captures a striking building in Mexico City adorned with a large, colorful mural in a tiki-inspired style. The artwork features a stylized face with geometric patterns and bold red, blue, and yellow hues against a light facade. The camera holds a steady, low-angle view of the structure under a cloudy sky, emphasizing its unique architectural design. The grainy texture and slight color shift typical of Super 8 film add to the nostalgic, archival quality of this historic home movie clip.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 123686039

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: 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 urban design requests needing a brief architectural cutaway or establishing detail from amateur 8mm footage.
Period detail: The facade, mural style, color film stock, and low-angle tourist framing may show early-1960s modern city architecture as seen in home-movie travel footage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, holding on an unusual building detail rather than staging action or formal documentation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tall building corner, a large stylized face mural, pale facade panels, rows of windows, cloudy blue sky, and dark 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries dense 8mm grain, muted color shifts, soft focus, and slight exposure variation that read as physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, urban transition, architectural cutaway, or memory beat within a Mexico travel or design sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents a public-facing mural or decorative facade in Mexico City without identifying the building, artist, or purpose from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the mural artwork and building design may require separate copyright or property review depending on use.
Research search match: Search phrases include 1962 Mexico City 8mm building mural, vintage Mexico architecture footage, colorful facade art home movie, and 1960s urban cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Mexico City exteriors, then broader footage of murals, modern buildings, or travel views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Mexico City 8mm frame showing a low-angle view of a modern building facade with a large colorful stylized face mural. — Building corner with a bold mural face and pale facade seen from below.

1962 Mexico City frame with the mural facade centered, showing geometric face artwork, pale walls, windows, and blue cloud cover. — Mural facade fills the frame beside a narrow wing of windows.

1962 Mexico City 8mm still showing the lower portion of a colorful facade mural on a modern building viewed from street level. — Street-level angle emphasizes the mural face and projecting building mass.

Final 1962 Mexico City frame showing the mural-covered building facade from below, with soft grain, cloudy sky, and visible film gate edges. — The building and mural drift slightly in frame against a textured cloudy sky.

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