Guaymas Mexico-1975: Pelicans On Rocky Island With Mountains In Background

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Year1975
Decade1970s
LocationGuaymas, Mexico
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1975 Guaymas Mexico

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Pelicans On Rocky Island With Mountains In Background — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1975, this vintage home movie captures a serene coastal scene in Guaymas, Mexico. The footage shows a rocky island or shoreline with numerous pelicans perched on the rocks, set against a backdrop of distant mountains and calm blue water. The image quality is characteristic of Super 8 film, with soft focus, natural color shifts, and visible grain. The camera appears to pan slowly across the landscape, offering a tranquil view of nature and wildlife.

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: 125784477

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 1005 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1975
Reel-level location note: Guaymas Mexico
Date: 1975 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: Guaymas, 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 edits needing coastal wildlife, pelicans, rocky shoreline, and mountain-backed water views from Guaymas, Mexico.
Period detail: The clip is supported as 1975 8mm footage, with visible clues limited to soft handheld color film, open water, rocky outcrops, seabirds, and distant mountains.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot feel, observing pelicans from across the water with slow handheld framing rather than staged wildlife coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, dark rocky shoreline, perched pelicans, pale sky, distant mountain ridges, and soft 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm texture with soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, gate edges, and handheld motion that preserve its home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief coastal insert, wildlife cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition between broader Mexico or shoreline sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents a quiet coastal view in Guaymas as seen by a home-movie camera, emphasizing landscape and seabirds over human activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location or wildlife-use requirements separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1975 8mm Guaymas Mexico footage, pelicans on rocky coast, vintage Mexican shoreline, and home-movie coastal wildlife.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1975 Guaymas material, then broader vintage Mexico coast or seabird footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1975 Guaymas 8mm frame showing pelicans clustered on rocky shoreline across blue water with hazy mountains in the background. — Pelicans rest on a rocky coastal outcrop beyond blue water, with mountains fading in the distance.

1975 Guaymas coastal frame with blue water, jagged rocks, seabirds on the shore, and a dark mountain rising behind them. — A rocky shoreline with seabirds sits between rippled blue water and a dark mountain backdrop.

1975 Guaymas 8mm frame showing a closer rocky shoreline with pelicans, rippled blue water, and soft mountain forms in the distance. — The camera frames pelicans along the rocks from across the water, with mountains beyond the shoreline.

1975 Guaymas home-movie frame showing rocky shoreline and a low mountain across blue water under a pale sky. — A final coastal view holds on the rocky shore and low mountain beyond the water.

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