Yucatan Mexico-1973: Mayan-Style Monument At A City Roundabout

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

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Mayan-Style Monument At A City Roundabout — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1973, this vintage footage captures a large stone monument at a roundabout in Yucatán, Mexico. The structure features intricate Mayan-inspired carvings and a prominent winged sculpture, set against a backdrop of palm trees and a cloudy sky. The greenish tint and film grain are characteristic of home movie footage from the era, with a person briefly visible near the monument. The camera moves smoothly around the circular feature, offering a dynamic view of this historic public artwork.

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: 124571449

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.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s documentary or educational requests needing visitor-shot Yucatán city streetscape footage with a Mayan-style public monument.
Period detail: The 1973 home-movie look, roadway curb, palm-lined setting, and sculptural roundabout may show civic design and tourist movement in Yucatán during the early 1970s.
Home-movie behavior: The camera passes the monument from a moving vehicle or roadside position, giving an unstaged traveler’s view rather than a formal survey shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a stone wall, carved vertical slabs, a winged sculpture, roadway curb, palm trees, cloudy sky, and a small pedestrian figure.
Film character: Green color shift, soft focus, grain, gate weave, and exposure variation give the scan a recognizable 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing cutaway, travel transition, civic monument insert, or memory beat within a Mexico or Yucatán sequence.
Historical context: The clip shows a public roadside monument with Mayan-inspired forms in an urban or town setting, without enough visual evidence to identify the exact landmark.
Research note: A pedestrian appears at distance, so likeness review may be needed; no visible brands are evident, and copyright clearance is separate from location or likeness issues.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1973 8mm Yucatán Mexico roundabout monument, Mayan-style public sculpture, vintage Mexican street footage, and home-movie travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1973 Yucatán street or monument footage, then broader vintage Mexico travel and public-art scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm view in Yucatán, Mexico, showing a Mayan-style stone monument at a roundabout with a winged sculpture and roadside curb. — Mayan-style stone monument and sculpture seen from the road in Yucatán.

Yucatán, Mexico, 1973 home-movie frame showing the stone roundabout monument from a moving viewpoint, with carvings and trees behind it. — The camera passes the carved monument and winged sculpture at the roundabout.

1973 Yucatán street view with a Mayan-style stone monument, winged sculpture, curb, and a distant person near the roadside. — A distant pedestrian appears near the stone roundabout monument.

Final 1973 8mm frame of the Yucatán roundabout monument, showing carved stone surfaces, a winged sculpture, road curb, and trees. — Carved stonework and the winged sculpture fill the roadside view.

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