Mexico-1975: Woman Tending a Comal Over an Open Wood Fire at a Roadside Food Stand

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Year1975
Decade1970s
LocationMexico
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1975 · Mexico
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1975 · Mexico · Reel 62188de9 contains 5 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

traditional cooking
street food
women's work
roadside travel
Mexican food culture
fire
everyday life

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · zoom · pan
Setting: outdoor · open-sided roadside food stand with a wood-fired stove, a pillar and a decorative cement lattice wall
Time and weather: day
Lighting: low light, deep shade lit mainly by the cooking fire
People: 1 · One adult woman in an orange dress and white apron, cooking at the stove; her face is dim and soft.
Objects: comal griddle · split firewood · open flames · white apron · stone or masonry stove base · pillar · cement lattice wall · food on the griddle
Colors: purple · deep blue · orange · yellow · white
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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Close view of flames from split logs burning under a wide comal, beside the woman's white apron.
The woman reaches up and moves beside the stove as the camera starts to widen.
A pillar and a patterned cement lattice wall come into view behind the stove.
The woman stands behind the comal, tending food above the fire.

Woman Tending a Comal Over an Open Wood Fire at a... — Clip Details

In Mexico, circa 1975, home movie footage shows a woman in an orange dress and white apron cooking on a wide comal set over an open wood fire at a roadside food stand. The shot opens close on flames rising from split logs beneath the griddle. The handheld camera then widens and drifts left to show her working behind the stove, beside a pillar and a patterned cement lattice wall. Filmed on Super 8 in low light, the picture carries a strong purple-blue cast, and the fire glows yellow-orange.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-upExterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001009

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People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1975 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: This clip helps with requests for 1970s Mexican roadside food culture or traditional wood-fired cooking in documentary, travel and education productions.
Period detail: The woman's orange dress and apron, the wood-fired comal and the masonry stall may show a mid-1970s rural roadside eatery, and the reel's 18-peso comida corrida sign supports the period.
Home-movie behavior: A traveller stopped to film a cook at work, so the clip shows unstaged everyday labour at a food stand rather than a performance for the camera.
What appears in frame: Flames rise from split logs under a broad comal, a woman in an orange dress and white apron works at the stove, and a pillar and a patterned cement lattice wall stand behind her.
Film character: The handheld Super 8 shot is dark and grainy with a heavy purple-blue cast, and the warm firelight glows against it, giving a strong period texture.
Edit role: It works as a short cutaway or memory beat for a food or travel sequence, and the opening close-up on the flames can serve as a transition.
Historical context: Cooking on a comal over firewood was a familiar sight at simple roadside eateries, and the reel shows the stand's hand-painted Spanish menu signs priced in pesos.
Research note: The film's copyright is separate from the likeness of the woman, who is unidentified and whose dim face may still be recognisable to people who know her, and from rights in the private stall premises.
Research search match: Suitable searches include 'Super 8 Mexico 1970s woman cooking wood fire', 'vintage roadside comal cooking' and 'home movie Mexican food stand'.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's hand-painted menu signs, couple greeting the camera, roadside motel and vehicles, rustic restaurant and cow on the mountain road, then with other circa-1970s Mexico travel film, then with traditional cooking footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close view of a wood fire burning under a comal at a roadside food stand in Mexico, circa 1975, on Super 8 film — Split logs feed an open fire beneath a broad comal while the cook stands beside it in a white apron.
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Woman in an orange dress and white apron moves beside a wood-fired comal at a Mexican roadside stand, circa 1975 — The cook, in an orange dress and white apron, reaches up beside the stove as the fire burns under the griddle.
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Wider view of a woman cooking on a comal over a wood fire in front of a cement lattice wall, Mexico, circa 1975 — The camera widens to show the woman tending food on the comal, with a pillar and a patterned cement lattice wall behind her.
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Woman tends food on a comal over a low wood fire at a roadside food stand in Mexico, circa 1975, in purple-cast Super 8 — In the final moments the woman works over the griddle as small flames burn below, in a heavy purple film cast.
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