Mexico City-1962: Panoramic Of Commercial Building With A Beautiful Work Of Art

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

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Panoramic Of Commercial Building With A Beautiful Work... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this clip captures a modernist building in Mexico City featuring a striking mosaic artwork. The camera pans across the structure, revealing its curved facade, rows of windows, and a multi-level elevated walkway. A large, colorful mural with stylized faces and geometric patterns adorns the building's corner, set against a bright sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering a nostalgic look at mid-century architecture and public art.

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: 123686059

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 requests needing 1960s Mexico City urban architecture, modernist commercial exteriors, or public art cutaways for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The clip shows mid-century architectural cues, including a curved facade, repeated window bands, elevated walkways, broad stairs, and a large abstract mural on a building corner.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld pan has a visitor-shot perspective, observing the building and mural from ground level rather than staging activity around it.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a modernist building, rows of windows, broad exterior steps, elevated walkways, columns, sky, and a colorful abstract wall mural.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, soft contrast, mild exposure variation, and saturated color that support its physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, architectural cutaway, city transition, or visual memory beat around Mexico City modernism.
Historical context: The footage visually situates public art within a modern urban building setting, without confirming the building name, artist, or original purpose from the frames alone.
Research note: Human review should consider visible people flagged in clip data and the mural artwork separately from any copyright, likeness, or property permissions.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1962 8mm Mexico City building, modernist facade with mural, public art exterior, urban architecture home movie, and vintage commercial building.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then Mexico City 1962 exteriors, then other mid-century architecture, murals, stairs, and urban public-art footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Mexico City footage showing a modernist building facade, exterior stairs, and elevated walkway against a bright sky. — Ground-level view of a modernist building with steps, window rows, and connecting walkways.

1962 Mexico City view of a modernist building corner with columns and a large abstract mural on the facade. — A colorful mural appears on the corner of a raised modernist building facade.

1962 Mexico City footage showing a closer building corner with an abstract mural, exterior stairs, columns, and walkway. — Closer framing emphasizes the mural and raised corner of the modernist building.

1962 Mexico City close view of a colorful abstract mural mounted on the corner of a modernist building. — The pan ends on a tighter view of the colorful mural and adjacent window bands.

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