Acapulco Mexico-1962: A Modernist Building With A Patio And Windows Surrounded By Palm Trees

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

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A Modernist Building With A Patio And Windows Surrounded... — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from Acapulco, Mexico, in 1962 captures a modernist multi-story building nestled on a lush hillside. The structure features extensive glass windows, a prominent patio with a flat roof, and is surrounded by dense palm trees and tropical foliage. The footage, shot from a high vantage point, reveals the building's architectural details and its integration with the natural landscape. The warm, slightly faded colors and visible film grain evoke a nostalgic, mid-century atmosphere, offering a glimpse into a classic Mexican resort setting.

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: 123726092

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: Useful for 1960s travel, resort, architecture, or Acapulco context needing a brief home-movie view of a modernist hillside building.
Period detail: The flat rooflines, broad glass bands, patio structure, and faded 8mm color may show mid-century resort architecture in 1962 Acapulco.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot vantage point from above, observing the building and surrounding palms rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a glass-fronted building, flat-roof patio, hillside vegetation, palm trees, railings, terraces, and small distant figures.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, slight color fade, gate edges, and handheld framing that support its home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a resort-location insert, architectural cutaway, travel transition, or short memory beat within a Mexico sequence.
Historical context: The view places modern resort construction within tropical hillside surroundings, showing built form and landscape together without identifying a specific landmark.
Research note: Review for copyright status, location/property context, and distant likeness concerns because small people are visible on the patio area.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 Acapulco 8mm home movie, mid-century Mexican resort building, hillside modernist architecture, and palm-lined travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Acapulco material, then other 1962 Mexico travel views, then broader mid-century resort and modernist architecture footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Acapulco home-movie frame showing a glass-fronted modernist building, flat patio structure, tropical foliage, and small distant people. — High-angle view of a modernist building and patio among palms in Acapulco.

1962 Acapulco frame with a modernist building, wide window bands, flat-roof patio, palms, hillside plants, and tiny figures near the terrace. — Modernist resort-area building viewed from an elevated position with palms behind it.

1962 Acapulco home-movie still showing the building's glass facade, patio roof, tropical palms, hillside setting, and terrace edges. — The camera frames the glass facade and patio structure against dense tropical foliage.

1962 Acapulco frame showing a modernist hillside building with long window rows, a flat patio canopy, palms, and surrounding greenery. — A final view holds on the modernist building set into a palm-lined hillside.

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