A high-angle view looks over modern white buildings, palms and cars along a curving street.
1962 · Acapulco, Mexico
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The camera frames a white modern building with a terrace above cars and tropical planting — Acapulco, 1962
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- Catalog year
- 1962
- Location
- Acapulco, Mexico
- Image
- Still 3 · 3.20s into the source clip
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1962 Acapulco home-movie view of a white flat-roofed residence with palms, parked cars and a road below.
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Modern homes and terraces overlook a bright road bordered by palms and hillside vegetation.
1962 · Acapulco, Mexico
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A white modern building and terrace sit above a road with cars, framed by palms and hillside foliage.
1962 · Acapulco, Mexico
Still image · $49
Source footage and archive context
Acapulco Mexico-1962: Modern Homes and Palm Trees in Acapulco
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Source format: 8mm.
Browse the collection: 1962 Acapulco Mexico.
Date documentation · estimated
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 documentation · estimated
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.
Source reel 1835
Reel label: pyramid,university city,$80000 house,floating gardens
Year note: 1962
Location note: dallas,mexico city
Period detail
The flat-roofed white buildings, open terraces, older cars and saturated 8mm color support a mid-century coastal setting in the early 1960s.
Film character
The 8mm image carries soft focus, visible grain, high sun exposure, saturated color and slight frame instability consistent with amateur home-movie footage.
Historical context
The view suggests a built-up tropical hillside neighborhood where modernist residential forms sit close to roads, cars and dense palms.
Research note
People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed even though faces, brands and readable logos are not apparent in these frames.
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