Acapulco Mexico-1962: Palm Trees Frame Turquoise Pool In Tropical Resort

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

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Palm Trees Frame Turquoise Pool In Tropical Resort — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched tropical scene in Acapulco, Mexico. Lush palm trees with swaying fronds frame a vibrant turquoise pool, their shadows dancing across the water. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color saturation, and a slightly soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century vacation atmosphere. The camera remains steady, offering a serene view of the resort-like setting, with dense green foliage surrounding the pool area. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects exploring 1960s travel and leisure.

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: 123726515

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: Useful for 1960s travel, leisure, tourism, and resort-life edits needing an exterior Acapulco home-movie pool cutaway.
Period detail: The scene may show mid-century tropical resort landscaping, with tall palms, dense planting, and a turquoise swimming pool seen from above.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot vacation perspective, lingering on scenery rather than staged action or identifiable people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include palm trunks, hanging fronds, turquoise pool water, poolside paving, dense shrubs, sunlit grass, and deep film-edge shadows.
Film character: The 8mm scan has warm color, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and rounded frame edges that mark it as physical home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a resort establishing insert, tropical transition, travel-memory beat, or quiet cutaway between vacation scenes.
Historical context: The view reflects leisure travel imagery of a tropical pool environment in Acapulco, without visible guests, signage, or landmark identifiers.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright and any location or property permissions should still be checked separately.
Research search match: Researchers may find this clip through searches for 1962 Acapulco 8mm pool footage, tropical resort palms, vintage Mexico vacation, or home movie travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Acapulco material, then broader 1960s Mexico travel or tropical resort footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Acapulco home-movie view of palm trees and dense greenery around a bright turquoise pool. — Palm trees cast shade over a turquoise resort pool.

Palm fronds and resort planting overlook a turquoise pool in the 1962 Acapulco vacation footage. — A high view looks through palms toward the pool.

A slightly shifted 8mm frame shows tall palms, heavy fronds, and blue pool water at an Acapulco resort setting. — Palm trunks and fronds partly veil the pool below.

Final frame of the 1962 Acapulco clip holds on palms, shrubs, and the turquoise swimming pool from above. — The camera holds on tropical landscaping around the pool.

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