Mexico City-1962: A View Of The Big Building And The Cars That Surround It

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

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A View Of The Big Building And The Cars That Surround It — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a view of a large, imposing concrete building in Mexico City. The structure, with its repetitive grid of windows, stands against a bright blue sky, flanked by green trees and a paved walkway. The footage, framed by the dark edges of a window or doorway, shows subtle camera movement, revealing the building's scale and the surrounding urban landscape. The film exhibits natural grain and color shifts typical of Super 8 footage from the era, evoking a sense of mid-century architectural history and everyday life in the city.

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: 123686137

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

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 architecture requests needing brief exterior home-movie footage of a large modern building and grounds.
Period detail: The concrete facade, repetitive window grid, paved walkways, and 8mm color stock may show mid-century urban design in Mexico City.
Home-movie behavior: The framing from a shaded window or passageway gives the clip a visitor-shot perspective rather than a staged architectural survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large concrete building, rows of windows, trees, lawn, paved paths, a side wall, sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and handheld reframing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short exterior cutaway, location-establishing insert, or memory beat within a 1960s Mexico City sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers a quiet view of modern urban space, showing building scale, landscaping, and circulation areas without identifiable people.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but building identity, property status, copyright, and location claims should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Search matches include 1962 Mexico City 8mm building exterior, mid-century concrete architecture, urban walkway, trees, and home-movie city view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Mexico City exteriors, then broader 1960s urban architecture and street-context footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Mexico City 8mm view of a large concrete building, lawn, trees, and a walkway seen from a shaded opening. — Large modern building and landscaped grounds viewed from a shaded frame.

Large Mexico City building in 1962 footage, with trees, grass, walkway, and dark architectural framing at the edges. — Building facade, trees, and walkway framed by a shaded opening.

Handheld 8mm frame from Mexico City showing a concrete building, surrounding greenery, and paved circulation paths in 1962. — Shifted handheld view of the building and landscaped approach.

Final 1962 Mexico City frame shows the large concrete building with trees, lawn, walkway, and side wall under bright sky. — Final view of the building exterior and grounds from the shaded passage.

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