Mexico City-1962: Sidewalk Of A Building Frequented By People On A Sunny Day

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

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Sidewalk Of A Building Frequented By People On A Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this clip captures a sun-drenched courtyard in Mexico City, viewed through a window frame. The scene features modernist architecture with brick and concrete buildings, a covered walkway, and a paved plaza. A small kite flies in the clear blue sky, adding a touch of life to the quiet, empty space. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and lens imperfections, evoking a nostalgic, authentic home movie feel from the early 1960s.

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: 123686180

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 requests needing early 1960s Mexico City exterior architecture, modernist campus-like space, or quiet urban establishing footage for documentary edits.
Period detail: The flat-roofed brick and concrete structures, covered walkway, paved plaza, and simple landscape planting may show mid-century institutional architecture.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective from behind a window or doorway, observing a quiet public-facing courtyard without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark window framing, brick building masses, concrete columns, covered walkway posts, paved plaza, small trees, lawn, and blue sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, mild color fading, gate edges, dust specks, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm exterior insert, location transition, architectural cutaway, or memory beat between more active Mexico City scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually situates a modern built environment in Mexico City in 1962 without identifying a specific institution or landmark from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright, location, and property-context review may still be needed for final use.
Research search match: Researchers may find this under 1962 8mm Mexico City modernist building exterior, sunny courtyard, paved plaza, or covered walkway footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Mexico City exteriors, then broader mid-century urban architecture cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Mexico City courtyard view through a dark frame, showing brick and concrete architecture, a column, paved ground, and clear sky. — A framed view across a sunny paved courtyard toward modern brick and concrete buildings.

1962 Mexico City exterior with a modern brick building, concrete column, covered walkway, paved plaza, and sparse trees. — The camera holds on the quiet plaza and covered walkway outside a modern building.

1962 Mexico City courtyard view showing the walkway structure, paved ground, brick building edge, trees, lawn, and distant hills or skyline. — A wider view shows the covered walkway crossing the courtyard beside trees and grass.

1962 Mexico City courtyard with modern building forms, walkway posts, trees, lawn, and a small kite-like object against the sky. — The final frame looks across the open plaza toward trees and the modern building beyond.

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