Acapulco Mexico-1962: View From The Hotel Entrance With Lots Of Sun And Lush

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

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View From The Hotel Entrance With Lots Of Sun And Lush — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched tropical view from a hotel entrance in Acapulco, Mexico. Lush palm trees frame a turquoise swimming pool, their fronds swaying gently in the breeze. The camera pans slowly, revealing stone steps leading down toward the pool area, with dappled sunlight filtering through the foliage. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, warm color saturation, and natural light, evoking a nostalgic 1960s vacation atmosphere. Ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or retro-themed 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: 123726467

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: 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: 1960s Acapulco travel footage for productions needing a brief hotel-pool view, tropical resort atmosphere, or vacation-era cutaway from 8mm home movies.
Period detail: The elevated hotel viewpoint, palm-planted pool area, stone steps, and saturated 8mm color may show early-1960s resort leisure style in Acapulco.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective from a shaded hotel entrance or balcony, observing the pool and palms rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include turquoise pool water, palm fronds, planted landscaping, stone steps, a curved walkway, bright sun patches, and dark frame edges.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, high-contrast tropical sunlight, slight blur, color saturation, and handheld framing that give it archival home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel transition, resort cutaway, or memory beat within a 1960s vacation sequence.
Historical context: The view documents leisure travel imagery through a private vacation camera, emphasizing resort architecture, tropical landscaping, and outdoor pool space.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or location permissions should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 Acapulco 8mm hotel pool view, 1960s Mexico vacation home movie, tropical resort palms, and vintage travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1962 Acapulco hotel or pool footage, then broader 1960s Mexico vacation and tropical resort material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Acapulco 8mm frame showing palms and bright turquoise pool water from an elevated hotel viewpoint. — Palm fronds frame a turquoise hotel pool seen from above.

1962 Acapulco hotel view with palm shadows, pool water, landscaping, and a dark roof or ledge in the foreground. — A shaded foreground edge contrasts with bright pool water and palms.

1962 Acapulco resort grounds with stone steps, curved path, palms, and pool water in a handheld 8mm frame. — Stone steps lead through landscaped hotel grounds toward the pool area.

1962 Acapulco 8mm frame looking over palms, pool water, a white wall, and a shaded curved walkway. — Palms and a white wall border the pool area in bright tropical light.

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