Xochimilco Mexico-1952: Passenger Launch and Flower-Arched Trajineras at a Crowded Canal Landing

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationXochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico
Duration10s
Price$149 USD
Collection1952 · Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico
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1952 · Xochimilco & Mexico · Reel 433539a3 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

tourism
travel
waterways
folk tradition
leisure
crowds
Mexican culture

Shot type: wide
Camera: handheld · pan · high angle
Setting: outdoor · Tree-lined canal with a stone embankment, a boat landing with awnings and a two-storey building, and boats on the water
Time and weather: day · clear
Lighting: Daylight with bright highlights on boats and awnings and dark shaded trees
People: 40 · Crowds of adult visitors standing along the embankment under awnings, seated passengers in a launch, boatmen in straw hats and light clothing, and a man in a grey suit standing in a decorated boat
Vehicles: trajineras · passenger launch · canoe
Landmarks: Xochimilco canals
Objects: flower arches · punting pole · white awnings · stone embankment · white steps · boat canopies · painted sign band
Colors: deep blue · yellow · white · red · dark green
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: High

Moments in the footage

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High view down the canal over a passenger launch, flower-arched boats and a canopied canoe.
The camera pans left across the stone embankment, crowds under awnings and the landing building.
A boatman in a straw hat poles at the stern of the crowded launch.
The view settles on the decorated arches and boats gathered at the landing.

Passenger Launch and Flower-Arched Trajineras at a... — Clip Details

In Xochimilco, Mexico City, circa 1952, this home movie footage looks down on a busy trajinera landing on a tree-lined canal. A long white launch with a red canopy frame, full of seated passengers, lies along a stone embankment beside flower-arched trajineras and a canoe under a pale blue canopy. A boatman in a straw hat poles at the launch's stern. The handheld 8mm camera pans left across crowds under white awnings and a two-storey landing building, then settles back on the boats.

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: 10s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001792

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

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Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1952 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: Xochimilco, Mexico City, 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: Serves requests for colour establishing footage of Xochimilco or mid-century Mexico tourism circa 1952, for history documentaries and travel retrospectives.
Period detail: The boatmen's straw hats, the visitors' light clothing and the saturated 8mm colour may show the early 1950s, though nothing in frame carries a date.
Home-movie behavior: A visitor films from a raised spot above the landing, panning to take in the crowd and boats much as any tourist would on arrival.
What appears in frame: A white launch packed with passengers, flower-arched trajineras, a canoe under a pale blue canopy, a boatman with a pole, crowds under white awnings and a two-storey landing building.
Film character: Handheld 8mm colour with deep blue cast in water and shadow, glowing yellow arches, soft focus and fine grain from the projected transfer.
Edit role: Works as the establishing shot for a Xochimilco sequence or as a transition into closer boat and vendor inserts.
Historical context: The crowded landing shows the canals as a popular visitor outing; trajinera arches traditionally carry women's names, a custom said to date from the Porfiriato.
Research note: Copyright in the home movie is separate from likeness; visitors and boatmen are small and unnamed, and the landing building and decorated boats may be private commercial property.
Research search match: Xochimilco trajineras 1950s, vintage 8mm Mexico City canals, mid-century Mexico tourism home movie, flower boats boat landing archival.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's trajinera at the Xochimilco bridge and sarape vendor canoe clips, then other circa-1950s Mexico City footage, then wider mid-century travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Xochimilco canal landing, Mexico City, circa 1952: launch, flower-arched trajineras and canoe seen from above — Looking down the canal at a crowded landing, with decorated boats and a full passenger launch, Xochimilco, circa 1952.
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Circa 1952 Xochimilco, Mexico City: man in grey suit under a yellow arch beside a launch full of passengers — A man stands under a decorated arch as passengers wait in the launch beside the embankment, Xochimilco, circa 1952.
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Boatman poles a crowded launch at a Xochimilco landing, Mexico City, circa 1952, with awnings and a building behind — A boatman in a straw hat poles the crowded launch along the embankment at Xochimilco, circa 1952.
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Wide view of a busy Xochimilco canal landing in Mexico City, circa 1952, with arched boats, launch and spectators — Decorated boats gather at the busy landing as crowds line the bank and boats fill the canal beyond, Xochimilco, circa 1952.
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