Yucatan Mexico-1973: Mayan Pyramid Surrounded by Jungle

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationYucatan, Mexico
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 Yucatan Mexico

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Mayan Pyramid Surrounded by Jungle — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1973, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping pan across the ancient Mayan ruins of Chichén Itzá in Yucatán, Mexico. The iconic El Castillo pyramid rises prominently against a muted sky, surrounded by lush green jungle and scattered stone structures. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—soft focus, greenish color tint, and visible film grain—evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The camera moves steadily, revealing the temple's stepped architecture and surrounding columns, offering a rare glimpse of this historic landmark from a personal, amateur perspective.

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: 124571245

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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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: Yucatan, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s 8mm travel footage for productions needing a brief visitor-shot view of Chichen Itza ruins in Yucatan, Mexico.
Period detail: The soft color, handheld pan, and 8mm source support a 1973 home-movie context, with ancient stone architecture and open grounds visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged tourist viewpoint, panning across the temple and surrounding landscape from a distance rather than presenting a formal survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include leafless branches, stepped stone temple forms, column-like ruins, green trees, open grass, sky, and film scratches.
Film character: Green-shifted color, soft focus, grain, vertical marks, and uneven exposure give the scan a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short travel insert, establishing cutaway, transitional pan, or reflective memory beat for Yucatan or archaeology sequences.
Historical context: The footage shows a visitor-era view of Mayan ruins before contemporary digital tourism imagery, without documenting a specific event or ceremony.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review site, copyright, cultural heritage, and location-use considerations.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1973 8mm Yucatan Mexico home movie, Chichen Itza ruins pan, Mayan temple travel footage, and vintage archaeology cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1973 Yucatan or Chichen Itza clips, then broader vintage Mexico travel and archaeological-site footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm frame from Yucatan showing bare branches filling the view before the pan reaches the ruins. — Dark tree branches fill the opening frame before the temple view appears.

Distant 1973 8mm view of a stepped Mayan temple structure at Chichen Itza with trees and grass in the foreground. — The pan settles on a stepped temple structure beyond trees and open ground.

1973 Yucatan home-movie frame showing Chichen Itza ruins, column-like stones, trees, and open grass during a pan. — Ruins and column-like stone features stretch across the middle of the frame.

Late frame of the 1973 8mm pan across Chichen Itza, with the stepped temple, surrounding ruins, trees, and open grounds visible. — The temple remains in view as the pan continues across trees and open grounds.

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