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Yucatan Mexico-1973: Man Climbing On A Stone Building On A Sunny Day And With

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

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Man Climbing On A Stone Building On A Sunny Day And With — Clip Details

YUCATAN MEXICO-1973: A man in a light-colored shirt and dark pants climbs a weathered stone ruin under a bright, cloudy sky. The 8mm film captures the rugged texture of the ancient Mayan structure, partially overgrown with tropical vegetation. The handheld camera follows his ascent, emphasizing the decay and historical atmosphere of the site. This vintage home movie footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into a 1970s archaeological exploration, showcasing the enduring presence of ancient ruins in the Mexican jungle.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution
4K restored master (MP4)
License
Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
124571561

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

  • 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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Topics & Keywords

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  • classic footage

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
1970s Yucatan 8mm travel footage for documentary or education edits needing a visitor-scale view of stone ruins and archaeological tourism.
Period detail
The light shirt, casual trousers, handheld color 8mm look, and metadata-supported 1973 Yucatan setting place the scene in early 1970s home-movie travel documentation.
Home-movie behavior
A companion or traveler follows an adult man as he climbs over uneven ruin stones, giving the clip an unstaged tourist-perspective record of movement through the site.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include weathered stone walls, rubble, a dark doorway or arch opening, tropical trees, bright clouds, rough ground, and one adult man climbing.
Film character
The footage has soft 8mm grain, greenish color shift, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that read as physical-film archive texture.
Edit role
Editors can use this as a brief insert, travel-memory beat, ruin-site cutaway, or transition into a sequence about archaeological tourism in Mexico.
Historical context
The clip shows a casual visitor moving across old stone architecture in Yucatan, reflecting home-movie interest in historic ruins without identifying a specific landmark.
Research note
An adult person is visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are visible, and copyright clearance remains separate from location or person permissions.
Research search match
Useful search matches include 1973 Yucatan Mexico 8mm ruins, man climbing stone building, Mayan ruin home movie, and 1970s archaeological travel footage.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1973 Yucatan ruin scenes, and then with broader 1970s travel or archaeology-themed home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Yucatan home-movie frame showing a weathered stone ruin, dark doorway, trees, and rough rocky foreground.
A weathered stone structure sits among rocks and vegetation under a bright sky.
1973 Yucatan frame of an adult man climbing across rubble beside a weathered stone ruin wall under clouds.
A man climbs over uneven stones along the edge of the ruin wall.
1973 Yucatan home-movie view of a man from behind climbing a rocky ruin slope with stonework and clouds beyond.
The handheld camera follows the man as he climbs higher across the rubble.
1973 Yucatan frame showing an adult man climbing near the upper stones of a weathered ruin against a bright cloudy sky.
The climber reaches higher stones at the ruin, silhouetted partly against the sky.

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