Mexico City-1962: Modernist High-Rise Building With Brutalist Architecture

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

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Modernist High-Rise Building With Brutalist Architecture — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a striking view of a modernist high-rise building in Mexico City. The camera pans across the concrete and glass structure, revealing its brutalist architecture with repeating window patterns and prominent overhangs. A second, older building appears in the background, framed by green trees and a clear blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly faded quality, evoking a nostalgic mid-century urban atmosphere. This archival clip offers authentic period footage of Mexico City's evolving cityscape.

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: 123686150

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s Mexico City urban-development requests needing authentic 8mm exterior footage of modernist high-rise architecture.
Period detail: The concrete overhangs, repetitive window bands, and glass-railed balconies may show mid-century modern urban design visible in Mexico City in 1962.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, looking upward and across adjacent towers rather than staging a formal architectural survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include concrete slab balconies, gridded windows, a background high-rise, trees, lawn, paved walkway, blue sky, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, handheld framing, grain, slight color shift, and exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief cityscape insert, architectural cutaway, transition, or memory beat for mid-century Mexico City.
Historical context: The footage places modern apartment or office blocks within a landscaped urban setting without identifying a specific complex or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or interiors are visible, but copyright status and any architecture or property-related permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 Mexico City 8mm footage, modernist high-rise exterior, brutalist building detail, and vintage urban architecture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Mexico City 1962 material, then broader 1960s urban architecture footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Mexico City 8mm frame showing a low-angle view along a modernist high-rise with concrete overhangs and window bands. — Low-angle exterior view of a modernist high-rise facade.

1962 Mexico City frame with the camera angled between a modernist facade and a background high-rise with repetitive windows. — Modernist facade and background tower framed from below.

1962 Mexico City 8mm frame showing trees, lawn, walkway, and high-rise buildings in a modern urban setting. — Trees and walkway between modern high-rise buildings.

1962 Mexico City frame showing a landscaped space between modern high-rise structures with concrete and glass facade details. — Landscaped space between modern high-rise exteriors.

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