Yucatan Mexico-1973: A Large Green Hill Rises Over the Rural Countryside

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

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A Large Green Hill Rises Over the Rural Countryside — Clip Details

YUCATAN MEXICO-1973: A large, grass-covered hill dominates the landscape in this vintage 8mm home movie footage. The pyramid-like structure rises steeply from the surrounding countryside, its rocky surface dotted with sparse vegetation and small trees. The camera pans slowly across the scene, capturing the hill's imposing scale against a bright, cloudy sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—greenish color tint, visible grain, and slight motion blur—evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This footage offers a rare glimpse of a rural Mexican landscape from the early 1970s, perfect for historical or documentary projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124571759

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s 8mm Yucatan countryside footage suited to documentary inserts about travel, archaeology-adjacent landscapes, rural Mexico, or personal travel memory.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1973 visitor view of steep, vegetation-covered stone or earth mounds in Yucatan, with era clues mainly from the 8mm color stock and handheld framing.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, panning across the large mound forms from ground level rather than presenting a staged or narrated survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pyramid-like green mounds, rocky surfaces, grasses, low shrubs, small trees, a bright cloudy sky, and soft rural foreground vegetation.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, green color shift, mild blur, gate weave, and uneven exposure that identify it as scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing insert, travel-memory cutaway, or transition between archival scenes involving Yucatan landscapes and archaeological terrain.
Historical context: The scene places the viewer in a rural outdoor setting where monumental landforms or ruins appear integrated with grass, shrubs, and open sky.
Research note: Rights review should consider copyright in the film and any likeness issues from the clip-level people-visible flag, though no logos are apparent in these stills.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1970s 8mm Yucatan countryside, Mexico home movie hill, vintage travel footage rural Mexico, and pyramid-like mound landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1973 Yucatan or Mexico travel footage, then with rural landscapes, ruins, and vintage tourism themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Yucatan 8mm frame showing a steep vegetation-covered mound with scrubby foreground growth and clouds overhead. — A steep green mound dominates the rural landscape beneath a bright cloudy sky.

1973 Yucatan home-movie frame of a pyramid-like mound covered with grass and scrub, seen from a low rural vantage point. — The camera frames the mound's broad rocky face with grasses and small trees below.

1973 Yucatan 8mm frame showing the edge of a steep mound, rural grasses, shrubs, and a bright cloud-filled sky. — The pan moves past the mound, revealing more open grassland and low vegetation.

1973 Yucatan home-movie frame looking across grassy countryside with shrubs, small trees, and the mound receding at the left edge. — The shot opens toward the surrounding countryside as the mound falls partly out of frame.

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