Mexico City-1973: Modernist Skyscraper in Mexico City

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationMexico City, Mexico
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 Mexico City

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Modernist Skyscraper in Mexico City — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1973, this vintage home movie captures a striking modernist skyscraper in Mexico City. The building features a bold black facade with horizontal bands and a prominent decorative protrusion jutting from its side. People stroll across a grassy lawn in the foreground, dressed in period-appropriate clothing. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight motion blur, and a nostalgic color palette, offering a rare glimpse of 1970s urban architecture and daily life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124570985

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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 1275 · Super 8 · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: mexico
Date: 1973 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: Mexico City, 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 1970s Mexico City urban architecture requests needing brief documentary cutaways of modernist high-rise exteriors and public open space.
Period detail: The clothing, 8mm color, lawn setting and dark banded facade support a 1973 Mexico City period reading, with visible modernist architecture and pedestrians.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, observing people crossing the lawn near a large building rather than staging action for camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark multistory building, yellow vertical accents, a projecting decorative panel, grassy lawns, paved paths, lamp posts and scattered pedestrians.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, slight blur, uneven exposure and vertical film marks across the scan.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing insert, architectural cutaway, urban transition or brief memory beat for 1970s Mexico City material.
Historical context: The scene documents public movement around a striking modern building, showing how everyday pedestrians occupied landscaped urban space in the period.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; the building exterior should be assessed separately from footage copyright status.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1973 Mexico City 8mm architecture, black modernist high-rise, urban lawn pedestrians or vintage home movie skyscraper footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1973 Mexico City street or architecture shots, then broader 1970s urban modernism and public-space footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Mexico City 8mm frame showing a dark banded high-rise, lawn, walkway, lamp post and several pedestrians. — Pedestrians cross a landscaped lawn near a dark multistory building.

1973 Mexico City view of the modern building with a decorative protrusion, open grass and pedestrians near the path. — A projecting decorative panel stands out from the dark building facade.

Soft 8mm frame of a Mexico City modernist building with yellow accents, a lawn, lamp post and distant pedestrians. — The camera moves closer to the high-rise facade and landscaped foreground.

1973 Mexico City close framing of the dark banded building, decorative side projection, lawn edge and tall lamp post. — A tighter view emphasizes the building's dark bands and projecting side element.

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