Mexico City-1962: Homes Clustered on Hillside

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

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Homes Clustered on Hillside — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a sprawling settlement built up a hillside in Mexico City. The footage shows small homes clustered densely on the slope, surrounded by arid terrain and scattered trees. The camera moves steadily, offering a panoramic view of the community from a distance, with a dry plain in the foreground. The image exhibits classic Super 8 grain, faded colors, and film scratches, conveying a raw, nostalgic glimpse of mid-century urban development. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content about 1960s Mexico City life.

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: 123686259

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 archive requests needing distant urban-edge hillside settlement views for documentary context, education, or historical cutaways.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century hillside housing, open dry ground, scattered trees, and simple roads consistent with the supplied 1962 Mexico City home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, observing the settlement from a moving or panning distance rather than staging any activity or close subject.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a densely built hillside, small homes, dry foreground plain, scattered trees, roadside edges, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, warm faded color, visible grain, gate edges, and minor speckling that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, transition, or memory beat for urban growth, hillside neighborhoods, or travel-era context.
Historical context: The footage visually suggests residential expansion on a dry hillside outside or within Mexico City, without identifying a specific district or landmark.
Research note: No people, faces, brands, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property concerns should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Search matches include 1962 Mexico City 8mm hillside settlement, vintage home movie small homes on hill, and mid-century Mexico urban outskirts.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Mexico City material, then broader 1960s urban development or hillside housing footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Mexico City 8mm frame showing a hillside covered with small homes beyond dry open ground and sparse trees. — A distant hillside settlement rises beyond a dry plain with scattered trees.

1962 Mexico City view of clustered hillside homes beside an open dry plain with sparse trees and utility structures. — The hillside settlement appears beside open ground and sparse roadside vegetation.

1962 Mexico City 8mm frame showing dense small homes on a hillside, with dry terrain and trees in the foreground. — Dense small homes cover the hillside above dry ground and a few trees.

1962 Mexico City frame with a soft moving view of hillside homes, roadside ground, trees, and dry terrain. — A moving view catches hillside housing above a road edge and scattered trees.

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