Acapulco Mexico-1962: Boats On The Water And Trees By The Shore

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationAcapulco, Mexico
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 Acapulco Mexico

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Boats On The Water And Trees By The Shore — Clip Details

ACAPULCO MEXICO-1962: A vibrant 8mm home movie captures a sun-drenched coastal scene with small boats floating on calm blue water near a bustling pier. Palm trees line the shore beside mid-century modern buildings, including a prominent hotel with a diamond-shaped sign. The footage, shot from a moving perspective, reveals lush green hillsides and a lively waterfront promenade, evoking a nostalgic 1960s vacation atmosphere. The warm color palette and film grain enhance the authentic vintage feel of this archival Super 8 clip.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 123725594

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: Yes
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: Acapulco, 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 documentary or education edits needing Acapulco waterfront travel footage with boats, hotels, palms, and resort-shore context.
Period detail: The mid-century waterfront buildings, small motorboats, palm-lined promenade, and 8mm color stock support a 1962 Acapulco vacation setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot moving viewpoint, observing the harborfront and shoreline from across the water rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm blue water, small boats, a pier, palm trees, waterfront hotels, a diamond-shaped hotel sign, hills, and shore vegetation.
Film character: Soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight blur, handheld movement, and contact-frame exposure shifts give the footage a period home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, waterfront cutaway, resort-establishing beat, or transition into a 1960s Mexico vacation sequence.
Historical context: The views show Acapulco as a developed coastal resort area, with leisure boats and hotel architecture set against hills and tropical landscaping.
Research note: People and a visible hotel sign may require likeness, trademark, or location review; copyright status is separate from these clearance questions.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1962 Acapulco 8mm footage, Mexico waterfront home movies, vintage resort harbor boats, and palm-lined shoreline scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Acapulco material, then broader vintage Mexico travel or coastal resort footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Acapulco waterfront view with small boats near a pier, hotel buildings, palms, hills, and a visible hotel sign. — Boats float near an Acapulco waterfront pier with hotels, palms, and hills behind.

Acapulco harborfront in 1962 with boats on calm water, people near the pier, palms, hotel buildings, and hills beyond. — A resort waterfront scene shows boats by the pier and hotel buildings along the shore.

1962 Acapulco shoreline view with dense palms and trees below mid-century hotel buildings, softened by 8mm motion blur. — Palm-filled shoreline vegetation sits below waterfront hotel buildings.

Acapulco shoreline in 1962, showing palms, hillside vegetation, and hotel structures viewed through soft handheld 8mm footage. — The camera passes palms and resort buildings along the green shoreline.

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