PLAYITA BCS MEXICO-2017: Forty Year Old Message Washes Up On A Local Beach
About this clip
A 6-second home movie clip from Playita BCS Mexico in 2017, capturing a mysterious and nostalgic moment as a forty-year-old message in a bottle washes ashore on a local beach. The foamy waves roll in under a bright sky, revealing the aged paper and evoking a sense of wonder and romance. This vintage-style footage, shot on a modern camera with cinematic quality, blends natural beauty with a timeless story of discovery. Perfect for documentaries, emotional narratives, or nostalgic content about love, adventure, and the unexpected.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Useful for travel edits, coastal documentary sequences, agency mood reels, brand films, or social cuts needing a high aerial view of Playita shoreline, surf, scrubland, roads, and low development in Baja California Sur.
- Edit role
- The 8-second aerial works as a brief opener, location cutaway, or transition beat between ocean detail and land-based scenes, with a wide coastline composition that gives editors geographic context fast.
- Visual details
- Bright daylight shows blue ocean on the right, white surf along a narrow beach, scrub-covered coastal ground, dirt roads, scattered homes, inland buildings, low hills, and no visible people.
Shot slate
- Resolution
- 3840 × 2160
- Frame rate
- 29.97 fps
- Duration
- 6s
- Codec
- H.264 MP4
- File size
- 45 MB
- Location
- Playita, Baja California Sur, Mexico
- Year filmed
- 2017
- Published
- Oct 2017
Still Frames From This Clip
3 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.
License this clip royalty-free for $79 (Standard: all media, worldwide, perpetual, up to 1M views) or $199 (Extended: unlimited distribution, broadcast TV, theatrical). Instant 4K download with a license PDF, direct from filmmaker Phil Maher.