Mexico City-1962: Modernist Building with Sculptural Structure

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

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Modernist Building with Sculptural Structure — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage footage captures a modernist building in Mexico City, its geometric facade and expansive windows standing against a bright blue sky. A woman in a light-colored dress walks across the frame, while a distinctive sculptural structure with a curved, textured roof appears in the foreground. The scene unfolds on a paved plaza surrounded by trees and hedges, showcasing mid-century architectural design. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic vignette of a home movie, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 123686237

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: 1960s Mexico City home-movie footage for productions needing mid-century architecture, plaza exteriors, and visitor-shot urban cutaways.
Period detail: The modernist facade, broad paved plaza, and sculptural roof form may show early-1960s civic or campus design in Mexico City.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor perspective, with a woman briefly crossing the frame as the camera observes the building and sculptural structure.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a multi-story modernist building, textured curved-roof structure, paved plaza, trees, hedges, blue sky, and one adult pedestrian.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate edges, and handheld framing that preserve the home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an architectural insert, travel transition, urban memory beat, or establishing cutaway within a Mexico City sequence.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for mid-century urban space, showing modern architecture and open plaza design from a casual visitor viewpoint.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, but copyright, property, and location identification should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s Mexico City 8mm architecture, modernist building home movie, mid-century plaza footage, and urban travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Mexico City exteriors, then broader mid-century architecture or travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Mexico City 8mm frame showing a modernist building, paved plaza, trees, hedges, and an adult woman crossing the foreground. — A woman passes in front of a modernist building on an open paved plaza.

1962 Mexico City frame with a sculptural curved-roof structure in the foreground and a modernist building beyond trees and hedges. — A sculptural structure stands on the plaza with the modernist building behind it.

1962 Mexico City home-movie frame showing the textured curved structure close to camera, plaza paving, trees, and part of a modernist facade. — The camera frames the sculptural roof form more closely on the open plaza.

1962 Mexico City 8mm frame centering the sculptural curved-roof structure on a broad paved plaza with trees, hedges, and a building edge. — The sculptural structure is centered against plaza paving, trees, and blue sky.

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