Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker in June 1970 while visiting Mexico during the 1970 FIFA World Cup

It contains stock footage of Mexico City:

0:00 Passengers leaving the aircraft at Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez
0:13 Avenida Juárez
0:25 Paseo de la Reforma Col. Juárez
0:32 Hotel Fiesta Palace (today's Hotel Fiesta Americana)
0:51 La Fragua Street (Between those two buildings)—the two buildings has changed, one of them today is Banco Bienestar and the other is an office building
1:01 Calle de Morelos, corner of Paseo de la Reforma col. Juarez;
1:07 Christopher Columbus statue standing on Paseo de la Reforma (moved in October 2020)
1:11 The Edificio Bonos del Ahorro Nacional (National Savings Bonds Building). It suffered damage in the 1985 earthquake that cut the building to about 4 levels
1:12 The building on the corner of Paseo de la Reforma and La Fragua Street, on the ground floor it housed the Samborns store
1:25 It looks blurry, but it's the sculpture of Cuauhtémoc on the corner of Avenida Insurgentes and Paseo de la Reforma
1:33 The Angel of Independence (El Ángel—Monumento a la Independencia)
1:48 Fountain of La Diana Cazadora on Paseo de la Reforma;
3:00 The old Basilica of Guadalupe (the current Basilica had not yet been built)
3:07 Parishioners praying on their knees to the Virgin of Guadalupe for helping them with a problem they have
3:54 The Chinampas (Floating Gardens) of Xochimilco
6:11 Hotel María Isabel Sheraton in Paseo de la Reforma
10:13 Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco
10:42 Edificio de Relaciones Exteriores (Foreign Relations Building)
10:48 Archaeological site of Tlatelolco
11:32 Estadio de Ciudad Universitaria
11:51 Edificio de Rectoría, Ciudad Universitaria (University campus)
11:53 Biblioteca Centra UNAM
12:16 Chamber to Benito Juárez on Avenida Juárez
Please, comment if you recognize more subjects.

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