LA Paz Mexico-1974: Aerial View of Airport Runway and Coastal Island

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Year1974
Decade1970s
LocationLa Paz, Mexico
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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

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Aerial View of Airport Runway and Coastal Island — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1974, this vintage home movie captures a wide aerial view of an airport runway in La Paz, Mexico. The footage shows a desert landscape with a control tower and several small aircraft parked on the tarmac under a clear, purple-tinged sky. The camera pans across the scene, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-1970s aviation infrastructure. The final frames transition to an aerial shot of a coastal island, highlighting the region's natural beauty. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects exploring 1970s travel and aviation.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125783617

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 1004 · Super 8 · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1974
Reel-level location note: Cabo San Lucas Mexico,La Paz Mexico
Date: 1974 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: La Paz, 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

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s documentary or editorial requests needing brief travel, aviation, or Baja California aerial context from home-movie 8mm footage.
Period detail: The small aircraft, low airport structures, desert runway setting, and color 8mm look support a mid-1970s travel record, with La Paz and 1974 supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a traveler-shot perspective from an aircraft, observing airport grounds and then coastal landforms without staged action or visible performers.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a desert airfield, control-tower-like structure, parked small aircraft, runway or tarmac, coastline, island terrain, blue sea, and film frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, purple-blue color shift, exposure variation, and contact-print framing that signal original home-movie film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, aerial cutaway, or memory beat between airport arrival and coastal geography.
Historical context: The views place air travel infrastructure beside an arid coastal landscape, offering visual context for 1970s leisure or regional travel without asserting specific events.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but researchers should still review copyright, location, aircraft identification, and property context before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1974 La Paz Mexico 8mm airport aerial, vintage Baja airfield footage, 1970s small aircraft runway, and coastal island aerial home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel footage, then La Paz or Mexico 1974 material, then broader 1970s aviation, coastal aerial, or vacation-travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 La Paz, Mexico 8mm frame showing a distant desert airfield with parked small aircraft, low buildings, and a tower under a purple sky. — Distant airport grounds with small aircraft across a desert runway area.

Aerial or elevated 8mm view of the La Paz airport area, with small planes lined along the tarmac and desert hills in the distance. — Small aircraft and airport buildings seen from a wide traveler viewpoint.

1974 La Paz travel footage shifts to a high aerial view of a coastal island with rocky pale terrain, turquoise shallows, and dark blue sea. — Coastal island and surrounding water viewed from above.

Final 8mm frame showing a coastal island near La Paz from above, with sandy or rocky points, bright shallows, and saturated blue water. — Island coastline and blue water in a brief aerial travel view.

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