Mexico-1974: Woman Hauling a Bucket of Water From a Stone Public Washing Trough

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Year1974
Decade1970s
LocationMexico
Duration2s
Price$149 USD
Collection1974 · Mexico

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What is in this clip

domestic labour
laundry
water access
everyday life
women's work
communal spaces
travel observation

Shot type: medium
Camera: static · handheld
Setting: outdoor · Public stone washing troughs beside a long water channel in a town, with a whitewashed wall behind
Time and weather: midday · Sunny and clear
Lighting: Bright direct sunlight with hard shadows
People: 3 · One woman in a pink short-sleeved top and light skirt hauling water; two or three other people partly visible at the top edge of the frame near other basins.
Objects: bucket on a line · stone washing basins · laundry pile · red plastic buckets · metal washtub · orange basket · water channel
Colors: olive green · grey stone · pink · lilac · red
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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The woman leans over the stone wall with a bucket down in the water.
She pulls the bucket up toward the trough rim.
The full bucket comes up out of the channel.
She stands upright, lifting the bucket beside her laundry.

Woman Hauling a Bucket of Water From a Stone Public... — Clip Details

In what is likely a colonial town in Mexico, circa 1974, home movie footage shows a woman in a pink top leaning over the wall of a long stone public washing channel. She has a bucket on a line down in the green water, pulls it up to the rim and stands to lift it clear, with lilac and white laundry heaped on the basin beside her. Red plastic buckets, a metal tub and other washers are visible along the back wall. The single shot is filmed from a high, slightly handheld vantage in bright sun on Super 8 colour film.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 2s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000809

Rights & Clearance

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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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1974 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Mexico Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Answers requests for mid-1970s Mexican daily life, especially women hand-washing laundry and drawing water at communal troughs, for documentary, education or museum use.
Period detail: Plastic buckets in red, a galvanised tub and the woman's clothing may show the mid-1970s, with the reel's dating bounded by the 1976 move of the Guadalupe image.
Home-movie behavior: An unstaged working moment seen by a passing traveller: the woman goes about hauling water without turning to the camera.
What appears in frame: A woman in a pink top, a bucket rising on a line from green water, lilac and white laundry heaped on stone, red buckets and a metal tub along a whitewashed wall.
Film character: Super 8 grain, warm sunlit highlights and saturated pinks give the scene authentic period texture, with slight handheld drift from a raised vantage.
Edit role: Works as a short daily-life cutaway or memory beat between landmark shots, or as an insert in a sequence on water and labour.
Historical context: Communal stone washing troughs served households in many Mexican towns, and this shot shows one in active use during the period.
Research note: Copyright in the film sits apart from likeness: the woman's face is visible and unidentified, so check personality and publicity rights for commercial use; the troughs appear to be public space.
Research search match: Researchers might search 'Super 8 Mexico 1970s washerwoman', 'public laundry troughs vintage footage' or 'woman drawing water home movie'.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's plaza bench, steam locomotive, old Basilica of Guadalupe and Teotihuacan clips, then with other mid-1970s Mexico town footage, then with laundry and water-carrying scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Woman leaning over a public washing trough to draw water by bucket, likely in a Mexican town, circa 1974 — A woman reaches down from the stone wall to fill a bucket in the washing channel.
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Woman hauling a bucket up from a communal washing channel, probably in Mexico, circa 1974, on Super 8 film — She hauls the bucket up toward the rim, with red buckets and a metal tub along the wall behind.
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Woman lifting water from a stone public laundry trough in a likely Mexican colonial town, circa 1974 — The full bucket comes up over the edge of the channel as other washers work at the far basins.
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Woman standing with a bucket of water at communal washing troughs, likely Mexico, circa 1974 home movie — Upright again, she raises the bucket beside her heaped washing.
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