Acapulco Mexico-1962: Tropical Resort With Palm Trees And Swimming Pool

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

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Tropical Resort With Palm Trees And Swimming Pool — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched tropical resort in Acapulco, Mexico. Lush palm trees frame a vibrant turquoise swimming pool, their fronds swaying gently in the breeze. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 color grading with saturated greens and blues, natural film grain, and a slightly soft focus. The scene is bathed in bright sunlight, evoking a sense of leisure and mid-century vacation nostalgia. This archival clip offers authentic tropical ambiance for documentaries, retro-themed projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 123726496

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: 1960s Acapulco resort footage suited to requests for mid-century tropical travel, leisure, hotel pool, or vacation-atmosphere inserts.
Period detail: The soft 8mm color, elevated pool view, palms, and resort landscaping may show a mid-century vacation setting consistent with the 1962 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, observing the pool and palms from above rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include turquoise pool water, tall palm fronds, dense resort greenery, sunlit paths or pool edges, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries saturated greens and blues, visible grain, slight softness, and uneven exposure typical of scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief travel cutaway, vacation memory beat, resort establishing insert, or transition into tropical leisure material.
Historical context: The scene reflects leisure travel imagery of a tropical resort environment without identifying a specific hotel, landmark, or event from the frames alone.
Research note: Metadata flags people visible, so likeness review may be needed in addition to copyright and any property-use assessment for commercial contexts.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1962 Acapulco 8mm resort pool, vintage Mexico vacation palms, and mid-century tropical home movie footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1962 Acapulco material, then broader vintage Mexico resort or tropical pool scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Acapulco resort view with palm fronds, dense greenery, and a turquoise swimming pool seen from above. — Palm-lined resort pool viewed from an elevated home-movie angle.

Elevated 8mm view of an Acapulco resort pool partly obscured by palm fronds and surrounding greenery. — Palm fronds hang over the blue resort pool below.

Home-movie frame of a tropical resort pool in Acapulco, with palms and planted greenery dominating the view. — Dense palms and resort plantings around the swimming pool.

1962 Acapulco resort pool scene with overhanging palm leaves, bright water, and garden planting visible through 8mm softness. — Overhanging palms shade the turquoise pool area.

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