Yucatan Mexico-1973: Tourists Explore Mayan Ruins and Colonial Building

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

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

$149 · Editorial onlyDirect license: editorial use only

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

Before you add to cart: 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. Checkout will only offer editorial, educational, internal and social/web scopes.

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

Tourists Explore Mayan Ruins and Colonial Building — Clip Details

YUCATAN MEXICO-1973: Vintage 8mm home movie footage captures tourists exploring ancient Mayan ruins under a bright, overcast sky. A woman in a light blue dress sits on a stone wall in the foreground while another person in a yellow top walks across the grassy field. The iconic stepped pyramid of Chichén Itzá rises in the background, surrounded by lush green trees. The scene shifts to a group of visitors approaching a white colonial-style building with arched doorways, their 1970s clothing and relaxed demeanor reflecting a classic family vacation. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking authentic 1970s travel nostalgia.

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: 124571267

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: 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

View source reel context Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s travel, tourism, and home-movie sequences showing visitors at Yucatan archaeological ruins and a colonial-style site in Mexico.
Period detail: The clip shows 1970s casual travel clothing, 8mm color stock, and tourist behavior consistent with the supplied 1973 Yucatan metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged visitor perspective, with tourists pausing, walking, and approaching sites as a family or tour group might record them.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include grassy ruins, a stepped stone structure, tourists in casual clothing, trees, a white arched building, and visitors entering through vegetation.
Film character: The footage has a green-shifted 8mm look with soft focus, visible grain, handheld framing, and mild exposure variation typical of scanned home movies.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief travel insert, establishing cutaway, itinerary transition, or memory beat for 1970s Mexico tourism.
Historical context: The scenes show leisure travel at heritage sites, with visitors moving through open grounds and built architecture without formal staging or narration.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, site access, and property or location permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1970s Yucatan Mexico 8mm tourism footage, Mayan ruins home movie, Chichen Itza tourists, and colonial building travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1973 Yucatan or Mexico travel clips, then broader 1970s archaeology, vacation, and tourist-site footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Yucatan home-movie frame showing tourists near a grassy archaeological site with a stepped structure beyond trees. — Tourists pause in open grass near a large stepped ruin surrounded by trees.

1973 Yucatan travel footage frame with a visitor standing in the foreground and a stepped archaeological structure in the distance. — A visitor stands in the field while another sits near a low stone wall before the ruins.

1973 Yucatan frame showing visitors walking toward a white colonial-style building with arched openings and decorative trim. — Visitors move toward the arched entrance of a white building bordered by greenery.

1973 Yucatan home-movie frame of tourists in casual dress approaching a white arched building through surrounding vegetation. — The group enters the site area through foliage toward the white arched facade.

Visually Similar Clips