Acapulco Mexico-1962: Tourist Community Showcasing Beautiful Palms And Nearby Hotels

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

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Tourist Community Showcasing Beautiful Palms And Nearby... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage footage captures a sun-drenched view of Acapulco, Mexico, showcasing a bustling coastal community. The clip opens on a hillside dotted with palm trees and a prominent hotel overlooking the water, with smaller buildings nestled along the shore. The scene shifts to a lively harbor where speedboats race across the blue water, leaving white wakes, while larger ships are docked in the distance against a backdrop of rugged mountains. The warm, slightly faded colors and film grain evoke a nostalgic 1960s travel memory, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects.

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: 123725625

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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: 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: Suits documentary requests for 1960s Mexican resort history, mid-century Latin American tourism, or establishing B-roll for Acapulco as a luxury travel destination of the Cold War era.
Period detail: The modernist multi-story hotel architecture and 8mm color stock with warm, slightly faded tones are consistent with early-1960s construction and consumer film of that period.
Home-movie behavior: Appears shot from the water or a boat deck, giving an unposed tourist vantage of the hillside and bay that staged production of the era would rarely capture.
What appears in frame: Frames show a large modernist hotel on a palm-covered hillside, a waterfront dock structure, blue harbor water, a speedboat with white wake, a large vessel at anchor, and a rugged mountain range beyond.
Film character: Warm, slightly desaturated 8mm color stock with visible grain and characteristic rounded-corner vignette of a home-movie frame conveys the look of mid-century reversal film.
Edit role: Works as an exterior establishing shot or cutaway in documentary segments on Mexican tourism, mid-century resort development, or Cold War-era leisure travel.
Historical context: Acapulco was a prominent international jet-set resort in the early 1960s; this clip may reflect the coastal development and harbor activity characteristic of that peak tourism period.
Research note: People are confirmed present per clip metadata; distant figures near the dock and likely occupants in the speedboat are not individually identifiable at this scale, but standard likeness review is advised. No property releases on file.
Research search match: Researchers may search: 1960s Acapulco, vintage Mexico tourism footage, mid-century Latin American resort, 8mm color harbor scene, 1962 travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other footage from the same 1962 Acapulco reel or trip; then with 1960s Mexican coastal clips; then with mid-century Latin American tourism or harbor-and-mountain landscape scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Acapulco, Mexico, 1962: modernist hillside hotel above a palm-lined harbor waterfront, shot on 8mm color film. — Modernist hillside hotel rising above the Acapulco waterfront and dock area, 1962.

Acapulco, Mexico, 1962: same hillside hotel from a slightly different angle, with palms and dock visible below. — Hillside hotel and tropical vegetation above the Acapulco harbor, 1962.

Acapulco, Mexico, 1962: wider hillside framing with modernist hotel, dense palms, and harbor dock below, on 8mm color film. — Wider hillside framing showing hotel, palms, and the Acapulco harbor waterfront, 1962.

Acapulco Bay, 1962: speedboat crossing blue harbor water with a large ship at dock and rugged mountains in the background. — Speedboat crossing Acapulco Bay with a cargo vessel and mountain backdrop, 1962.

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