Mexico City-1973: Building with Colorful Murals

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

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Building with Colorful Murals — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1973, this vintage home movie captures a zooming-out view of a uniquely painted building in Mexico City. The camera pulls back through lush green trees, revealing a large structure adorned with colorful murals and a prominent stone relief. The footage showcases the building's distinctive architectural details and vibrant artwork against a clear sky, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century urban design and public art in Mexico City.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 124571031

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: 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s Mexico City editorial projects needing a brief exterior view of public art, modern architecture, or urban greenery from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The 8mm frame texture, zoom movement, modern high-rise forms, and mural-like building surfaces support a 1973 Mexico City reading from the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, using a slow pullback through trees to record an unusual painted building rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include leafy trees, dense shrubs, tall painted building faces, a pale modern block, blue sky, and a stone or concrete relief wall.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, soft focus, slight handheld movement, uneven exposure, and vertical film marks that contribute to its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, city cutaway, transition, or memory beat around Mexico City public art and urban design.
Historical context: The view suggests a 1970s urban landscape where monumental exterior art and modern buildings are seen from a green public or landscaped area.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the artwork and building design may involve copyright or property considerations needing review.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1973 Mexico City 8mm building mural, vintage Mexico City public art, and home movie zoom out urban architecture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then with 1973 Mexico City exteriors, and then with clips of public art, murals, modern buildings, or urban greenery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Mexico City 8mm frame showing dense greenery partially obscuring tall mural-like building faces and a stone or concrete relief wall. — Trees fill the foreground as painted building faces and a relief wall appear behind them.

1973 Mexico City view through trees toward a tall painted building face beside a pale modern block under a clear sky. — The zoom begins to reveal more of the painted structure and neighboring modern building.

A wider 1973 Mexico City 8mm frame shows greenery in the foreground with a mural-like high-rise surface and pale modern building beyond. — The pullback opens the view to include more trees and the surrounding modern architecture.

Final wide 1973 Mexico City frame with lush trees, a tall painted building surface, a pale tower, and a relief wall partly visible below. — At the widest point, greenery frames the painted building and neighboring tower.

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